One of the reasons I can keep reading about abuse and abuse coverups in the Christian world is because I believe Christianity isn’t about what’s happening in western countries. Right now my parents are on a plane back to the country where they work, a country ravaged by Covid. I wish they didn’t leave Australia. They are 69 & 68, fully vaccinated. This is who they are, they won’t quit.

I've been thinking about Kevin DeYoung's critique of @bethallisonbarr's book The Making of Biblical Womanhood. It has to be unsettling to gatekeepers everywhere to have the world they invented taken apart by people who are qualified to do so.

https://twitter.com/sheilagregoire/status/1417473878109134849

I was born in 1982, grew up in a world that was made by white evangelicalism even though I'm Sri Lankan born + raised in the Philippines (and Northwest AR). That's the reach of American ideas about family, gender, and sex. Growing up, we accepted all these ideas as Bible truth.

A thread on the role scared parents play in making evangelical culture: As we examine the past 30-40 years to understand where Purity Culture came from, @kkdumez helped us see the significance of James Dobson. Here’s what she said to our Partner community in Patreon:

“In the early 70s James Dobson’s addressing this question of authority...Parents were reeling from the 1960s and the apparent breakdown of the social order, especially conservative white parents. Patreon.com/wheredowegopod

There are many reasons why the unfolding news of Ravi Zacharias’ abuse is enraging. But for me, there’s one other piece. The women he chose to abuse were young, massage therapists, ethnic minorities, likely women who were not in positions of power or education. Contrast that with the evangelical women who publicly supported Zacharias AFTER the news of his abuse of Lori Anne Thompson was out - @ChristineCaine @JackieHillPerry, @sadierob, Shelly Giglio, Brooke Ligertwood, Phylicia Masonheimer and others - women who are educated, powerful