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November 2019

November 13, 2019

Why Are So Many Evangelicals Okay with David Being a Murderer, But Not a Rapist?

Last month, I watched a very interesting debate play out on evangelical twitter. It was...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

The White House Sacrifice War Rape Victims on the Altar of Abortion

Well this is horrifying. A U.S. threat to veto U.N. Security Council action on sexual...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

New Developments in the Paige Patterson Affair, Explained

Colter, in other words, told only a very selective version of the truth in her...

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...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Bill Cosby, the Church, and Supporting Victims

This is the conceit of Christianity---it is a religion that purports to uphold and value...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

“I’m not saying they deserve to be raped, but…”

Wilson claims he isn't blaming women for getting raped while 'foolishly' dressed, but they shouldn't...

February 2017

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...

October 2016

October 24, 2016

Why I Lied About My Rape

A guest post by K. Matthews. "I told myself what I thought was the real...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

Obtaining Consent Doesn’t End with Marriage

Even if we decided that sex should only take place in marriage, as Osborne believes,...

September 12, 2016

Statutory Rape in Christian Homeschool Perspective

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

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...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

Doug Wilson: Women who reject patriarchy are tacitly accepting “the propriety of rape”

First Wilson imagines a society in which women are physically protected by their male relatives...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

Sexual Assault in Cologne and Sexual Assault at Home

Earlier this week, Hemant Mehta published an article titled We Can’t Ignore the Cultural and Religious Roots...

December 2015

December 08, 2015

The Word Is “Rape”

I recently read a rather horrific story about a teen girl held captive that brought...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

Are Women Biblically Required to “Cry Out” During Rape?

Yesterday we looked at Gothard's advice for young women in how to repel a "moral"...

August 17, 2015

Bill Gothard Explains Road Safety (aka How Not to Get Raped)

Do you remember when that Saudi historian said that western women drive because they don't...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

The Cold, Unforgiving World of Geoffrey Botkin

A Guest Post by Ahab. Botkin's 2013 sermon reminds us that fundamentalist legalism can be...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Men Rape and Women Seduce: John Piper’s Deleted Tweet

Make no mistake about it, Piper is equating men raping with women seducing. Same sin,...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

Crosspost: When Speaking to Men about False Accusations

A Guest Post by Samantha Field. However, I have yet to speak to a rapist–...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Richard Dawkins and Rape Rape

Frankly, Dawkins doesn't sound like he knows much more about rape than Todd Akin or...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

When Evangelicalism Makes Things Easy for Sexual Offenders—and Hard for Their Victims

Evangelical teachings on repentance and forgiveness create a tremendous problem when it comes to rape...

June 16, 2014

The Other Stories

Have you ever read a books where each chapter is written from the perspective of...

June 13, 2014

That’s Not Good Enough, Christianity Today—Updated!

In the face of increasingly vocal calls to pull the rapist's article (you can read...

June 13, 2014

Evangelical Narratives, Sexual Predators, and Safe Places

I have written time and again about the evangelical narratives used to excuse rape and...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Why Does Purity Culture Leave out Consent?

Samantha Field recently wrote two posts on consent on her blog, Defeating the Dragons. She...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

A Rape Trial from behind the Scenes

The way rape trials play out will of course vary from place to place, but...

March 05, 2014

Pensacola Christian College Too, and Why I Care

You may wonder why I have spent so much time in recent weeks writing about...

February 2014

February 17, 2014

Patrick Henry College’s Sexual Assault Problem

This morning the New Republic published Sexual Assault at God's Harvard, an article about how...

February 17, 2014

They called it “adultery” and made her confess

There is something perverse about treating adultery and child molestation as the same offense. Adultery...

February 13, 2014

“They said if you report it, you hurt the body of Christ”

You may have heard that Bob Jones University has fired GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse...