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June 2020

June 29, 2020

Patriarchal Blogger Doesn’t Understand Employment

Patriarchal blogger Lori Alexander recently wrote a blog post about a comment that she received...

February 2020

February 24, 2020

Submit Submit Submit Submit Submit Submit Submit

I'm used to seeing patriarchal authors frame women's disinterest in sex when they're tired as...

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...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

Is the Umbrella of Protection Changing?

Given this emphasis on submission and obedience, whether the wife holds her own umbrella under...

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...

February 18, 2015

Fifty Shades of Evangelical Justifications for Patriarchy

While researching my previous blog post on Fifty Shades of Grey, I came upon an...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

Punishment Has No Place in Marriage*

I grew up in an evangelical family, raised by parents who believed that husbands are...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

But What If Your Husband Tells You Not to Submit?

When I write about submission, especially in the context of Debi Pearl's book, Created To...

October 15, 2014

When Up Is Down and Down Is Up, Submission Edition

I recently came upon an old article explaining the concept of wifely submission. While I'm...

November 2013

November 05, 2013

How Doug Phillips Wreaked Havoc on My Family

My parents homeschooled me K-12, and during those years they fell under the influence of...

November 05, 2013

“The Female Sin of the Internet”

Doug Phillips doesn't like blogging women. According to Doug Phillips, blogging is "the female sin...

August 2013

August 04, 2013

Under Her Father’s Authority

In many ways, my upbringing and background isn't that weird. Yes, I had twice as...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

The Harlot v. the Godly Woman

I just ran upon an image comparing the "Harlot" to the "Godly Woman." I was...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

When a Gospel of Servanthood and Suffering Stands in the Way of Equality and Justice

When I saw this image I thought of a recent article in Prodigal magazine. It...

January 2013

January 12, 2013

John Piper on Submission and Abused Women

I recently came upon a video from a few years back where John Piper discusses...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Suzanne Venker’s War on Men

I tried to avoid Suzanne Venker, but I've found I just have to say something....

October 2012

October 03, 2012

“A truly loving husband won’t take advantage”

Evangelicals and fundamentalists who endorse patriarchy and wifely submission have a problem: teaching that God...

September 2012

September 15, 2012

From “Legal” Coverture to “Visionary” Coverture

Lately I've been thinking again about the whole name changing thing - and about why...

September 02, 2012

“Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man”

The Friendly Atheist recently posted an the results of a survey on women in the church,...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

“Little Bundles of Sin”: Evangelical Child Rearing

I recently ran across a truly excellent article on the politics of the conservative family...

August 19, 2012

If he’s Jesus and I’m the church, that’s not equal

"Husbands and wives are equal, they just have different roles." Do you have any idea...

August 13, 2012

Worshiping the Man: Christian Patriarchy as Idolatry

I just realized something that should have been obvious a long time ago. Christian Patriarchy...

August 11, 2012

Theology 101: Divine Revelation and Spiritual Headship

About a month ago a reader asked why, if evangelicalism was a religious tradition that...

July 2012

July 22, 2012

Command v. Suggestion: “Wives, submit!” and “Husbands, love!”

Any Christian Patriarchy advocate reading my post yesterday would surely have been shaking his or...

June 2012

June 14, 2012

“Different but Complementary” and “Separate but Equal”

I recently ran across a short post on Kaelee Bates, a blog run by a...

May 2012

May 19, 2012

Christian Patriarchy and Bodily Ownership

My mother taught my sisters and I that our bodies belonged to our father. She...

May 08, 2012

Raised Quiverfull: Marriage

In many ways, every Christian Patriarchy/Quiverfull couple has a different dynamic. What sort of a...

April 2012

April 03, 2012

Emotional Incest, Part 2: The Botkins

In Part 1 I discussed the definition of emotional incest. Today I will look at teachings of leading...

March 2012

March 10, 2012

Spanking, Fear, and Privileging Obedience

This is part of a series in which I am re-posting a number of posts...

March 09, 2012

Kirk Cameron supports female slavery

I keep seeing calls for Kirk Cameron to take back his homophobic comments, and articles...