Dr. Sandra Joy Russell πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ Profile picture
Interdisciplinary Scholar. Gender Studies at @mtholyoke writing about: Ukraine, gender, sexuality, and a bit about abortion. RPCV πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ She/her
Jul 9, 2021 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
A friend shared this via fb, and while I appreciate the attempted distancing from evangelicalism, the idea that there was a evangelical past that was more "pure," intellectually engaged, and committed to forms of justice is a harmful, naive fantasy. 1/4 christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2021… Evangelicalism has always, always been in the service of white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, & misogyny. Through its earlier forms of puritanism, it has long been a tool of subjugation & slavery, insisting on prescriptive (i.e. "godly") social structures & institutions. 2/4