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August 2020

August 10, 2020

“What kind of man wants to have sex with his mother?”

In modern America, wives are expected to be managers. Unpaid managers. Wives are expected to...

April 2020

April 14, 2020

We need a lot more therapists in this world

We teach kids not to do drugs and how to have safe sex (well, sometimes),...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

Wives Are Not Children and Husbands Are Not Their Parents

Lori loves to compare the relationship between husband and wife to that between parent and...

March 17, 2020

Tips for Young Wives: Set the Bar for your Husband Low

The thing about advice like this is that it mixes the bad with some not...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

How to Fix a Marriage, Patriarchy Style

Notice that there's no reflection here. No, oh, hey, maybe I should be telling them...

January 22, 2020

Writer Calls Egalitarian Marriages “Functionally Homosexual”

Defenders of a patriarchal social order often seem to think that women want to be...

January 21, 2020

Sweeping Dysfunction Under the Rug

In Lori's world, marriage are either dysfunctional or patriarchal. Well you know what? Patriarchal marriages...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

What Trump’s 401k Story Says about How He Views Marriage

In Trump's mind, wives love husbands for their money---and think they're losers if they don't...

September 2019

September 18, 2019

Who Is Married and Who Is Not? Fundamentalists Can’t Agree.

This is fascinating. Lori is using her belief that divorce is harmful to justify a...

August 2019

August 01, 2019

Maybe Women Are Remaining Single Because They Don’t Want to Marry Assholes

If Lori's description of men were accurate---if men were threatened by women who were bookworms...

March 2019

March 05, 2019

Much Ado about Marriage and Childbearing

Lori doesn't actually care about whether women are happy. Certainly, she claims women will be...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

Evangelicals Said Having Sex Before Marriage Will Ruin My Life. It Didn’t.

When I reviewed Josh Harris' recent documentary last month, I had two primary criticisms: First,...

November 2018

November 01, 2018

No, Ceasing to Say “No” Will Not Fix Your Marriage

While browsing Facebook last week, I came upon this headline: I Didn’t Say ‘No’ Once To...

July 2018

July 24, 2018

Checklist: An Evangelical Approach to the Marriage Market

This system is not a recipe for keeping your daughter safe. It's a recipe for...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

The Southern Baptist Convention: “A wife is to submit herself graciously”

You know what's really interesting? The Southern Baptist Convention did not mandate wifely submission or...

April 2018

April 11, 2018

The Courtship Constraints of Homeschool Erotica

I'm reminded of the many Christian romance novels I read as a girl in which...

March 2018

March 05, 2018

Why Conservatives Objected to that Kentucky Child Marriage Bill

Here's where it gets interesting: As we shall see, the sticking point for the Family...

February 2018

February 21, 2018

Wyoming Lawmakers: Same-Sex Marriage Is an Unconstitutional Establishment of Religion

Lone and Edwards' argument is as follows: Secular humanism is a religion; same-sex marriage is...

February 01, 2018

John Piper Is Against Women Teaching in Seminary—Here’s Why That Didn’t Surprise Me

This is not a new problem. The leadership at the church where the AWANA Bible...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

Child Brides, Teenage Sluts, and Roy Moore

Maranatha was 13-years-old when Matthew Chapman first approached her father. She was married when she...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

Has Wifely Submission Edged Out Jesus?

Let me just take a moment to point out that Wilson has instructed his readers...

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...

July 2017

July 06, 2017

A Breadwinning Wife Loses Her Vulnerable, Submissive, Servant Spirit

I'm really not sure what else to say here. Michael flat-out states that wives should...

May 2017

May 10, 2017

All the Evangelical Marriage Teachings I Had to Unlearn

My husband and I have been married for almost ten years. My upbringing was evangelical,...

May 08, 2017

Are Friendships a Threat to Your Marriage? Um. No.

This is perhaps to be expected when newly married couples without training in marriage, counseling,...

April 2017

April 10, 2017

The Many Shades of Coercion

What are we to think of women like Michelle, who tell women that if they...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

Massive Resistance Then and Now

Rather than issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in other words, Alabama would do away...

December 2016

December 12, 2016

Sacrificing Lives on the Altar of Marriage

The inviolable sanctity of marriage is not a victimless doctrine.

December 07, 2016

Jane the Virgin and Purity Culture Norms

I've been watching the CW's Jane the Virgin since the first season was released on...

September 2016

September 12, 2016

Statutory Rape in Christian Homeschool Perspective

The sad thing is that my parents often said they were homeschooling to keep us...