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June 2019

June 20, 2019

Is This Marital Rape? Lori Alexander and Closing the Escape Hatch.

Some women, Lori seems to suggest, have lots of sex with their boyfriends to lure...

June 19, 2019

Timothy Jones Killed His Five Children. What Society Has to Answer For.

Kyzer left her five children with a man she knew had violent tendencies because she...

December 2018

December 17, 2018

Ed Stetzer Will Listen—Unless You Were Hurt by the Church

Last week, Ed Stetzer wrote an article in Christianity Today titled All Faith Groups, Evangelicals Included, Need...

September 2018

September 25, 2018

The Paternalism of Complementarian Anti-Abuse Activism

Earlier this year, writer Kat Armstrong wrote a call to the church to protect women...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

Mark Galli Centers “Loyalty” While Addressing Accused Sexual Harasser Bill Hybels

This entire article was a huge missed opportunity. Galli centered loyalty to one's leader---trying only...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

This Southern Baptist Convention Abuse Coverup Is Ongoing

Out of everything discussed above, I find the International Mission Board's initial failure to acknowledge...

June 2018

June 13, 2018

Hey Evangelicals: Allowing Divorce But Not Remarriage Is Not Enough

Even those evangelicals who do view divorce on the grounds of abuse as valid frequently...

June 12, 2018

Doug Wilson Moves the Goalposts on Evidence and Abuse

For many years, Wilson has insisted that allegations against church leaders should only be entertained...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

In the Wake of the Latest School Shooting, Newspaper Headlines Need #MeToo

This framing is bullshit. It's also dangerous as heck. As the mother of a daughter who...

May 10, 2018

Obey. Submit. Obey. John Piper on Domestic Violence.

If anything comes across loud and clear, it is that even in acting to (presumably)...

May 09, 2018

John Piper on Domestic Abuse and Group Sex (Yes, That Combination Is Weird)

This is just bizarre. Maybe it's just me, but I think I can say with...

May 08, 2018

What’s Going on with the Southern Baptists?

Almost without exception, conservative evangelicals believe that wifely submission is ordained by God, that women's...

May 01, 2018

“[A]fter the photo event, they go back to looking lifeless.”

The Hart family photos were a farce. A baldfaced farce. It was all about creating...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

What Does “Bitter” Even Mean?

Perhaps the reason the term "bitterness" has lost all meaning for me is that I...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Shorter John Piper: Women Can Be Possessions, or They Can Be Prey

Piper is no fringe character. He is smack dab in the mainstream of conservative evangelicalism....

March 20, 2018

Alleged Abuser Saeed Abedini Still Working as Pastor

Yesterday, the Idaho Statesman reported that evangelical star Saeed Abedini was arrested on Sunday for violating...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

How Evangelical Ideas about Forgiveness Failed This Rape Survivor

A recent blog post titled "Do You See Me?" is making the rounds in the...

August 2017

August 02, 2017

When You Have to Tell Your Readers Not to Beat Their Wives…

Believing that your wife should obey you, but doing nothing one way or the other...

June 2017

June 21, 2017

Michael Pearl to Domestic Abuse Victim: Suffer Silently

This sort of advice could get someone killed. While I'd be horrified enough that Mike...

February 2017

February 20, 2017

The Home School Legal Defense Association’s Strange Legislative Agenda vis a vis Children with Disabilities

HSLDA has time to oppose legislation acknowledging that disabilities can make children more vulnerable to...

February 07, 2017

The Danger of the “Wayward Woman” of Proverbs

These interpretations desperately need to be challenged. As long as the narrative of the "wayward...

January 2017

January 16, 2017

This Is How It Happens

The 'pro-family' lobby frequently uses the language of the 'traditional family' to combat efforts to...

June 2016

June 08, 2016

Why the Brock Turner Letters Feel So Familiar

I wasn't going to write about convicted Stanford rapist Brock Turner. I really wasn't. Everyone...

June 06, 2016

Supergirl’s Jeremy Jordan: My Gay Cousin Has Been Sent to a Christian Home for Troubled Teens

I have a good friend who was sent to a Christian home for troubled teens...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

Bill Gothard and the Dynamics of Abuse

I mentioned a few weeks ago that the community in which I grew up has...

May 03, 2016

What We Need to Hear: How to Talk to Abuse Victims

I hear these responses and I grind my teeth. This is absolutely not what I...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Why Breitbart’s Anti-Trans Top Twenty-Five Bathroom Predator Stories Are Bunk

The recent spate of laws barring trans bathroom access has hit home hard. As the...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Guest Post: Not a Nice Story

By Darcy Originally posted on Darcy's Heart Stirrings From babyhood they said "You are a dirty...

February 16, 2016

Saeed Abedini, Franklin Graham, and the Manipulative Abuse of Couples Counseling

What becomes manifestly clear is that Franklin Graham has no understanding of how abuse functions....

February 03, 2016

Naghmeh Abedini, Franklin Graham, and the Silencing of Evangelical Abuse Victims

Finally, I made the mistake of reading comments on Facebook and you know what? A...