Never a Helpmeet Part 8: Why Patriarchy?

During the 1980s, the evangelical church pretty much threw over anything it used to mean to have that faith, and started to replace it with patriarchal “culture war” doctrine.

Never a Helpmeet Part 7: Jesus was No Patriarch

So, functionally, in patriarchal theology, men are saved through Jesus Christ by the grace of God, but women are saved through submission to men — human men — who become our gods and the objects of our worship.

Never a Helpmeet Part 6: Pride and Shame

Christian patriarchy insists on a strict, extreme, and hierarchical gender binary, and highly constrained sexual activity.

Never a Helpmeet Part 5: The New Misogynists

So “Good Christian men” get the message that they are expected to be dominant over women. And rapists and hate-filled trolls and potential mass murderers get the exact same message.

Never a Helpmeet Part 3: Patriarchy, What Happened to It?

In its broadest sense, patriarchy describes a society in which men are given, in both law and custom, more power, autonomy, and resources than women.

Never a Helpmeet Part 2: The Cult of Lifestyle Christianity

A doctrine that requires complete 24/7 immersion with no outside input is no longer faith — it’s brainwashing.

Never a Helpmeet Part 1: Selfish

Because you are “created to be his helpmeet.” If you’re just a person living your own life — well, that’s wrong.

INCH Homeschool Conference to Feature Child Marriage Advocate

Advocates for child marriage and trafficking should have no platform in homeschooling circles.

Get Them Married: Selling Virgin Daughters

The “Get Them Married Retreat”: how a homeschool speaker is promoting trafficking and child marriage right here in the U.S.

Crooked Arrow: Smith Lingo’s Story

I realized from a very early age that my dad cared more about me as an idea than about me as a person, a discrete, tangible being.