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Maybe the fact that women feel so upset by this “every man struggles with lust” message isn’t because women simply need to understand men better; maybe it’s because women are being asked to accept something that reflects the kingdom of darkness rather than Christ. Maybe women can’t accept being seen as objects and do not feel safe in a society that

In like manner, when evangelicals define themselves in terms of Christ’s atonement or as disciples of a risen Christ, what sort of Jesus are they imagining? Is their savior a conquering warrior, a man’s man who takes no prisoners and wages holy war? Or is he a sacrificial lamb who offers himself up for the restoration of all things? How one answers

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How about Holly? She is a young mom who recently left a comfortable suburban job to teach in an inner-city school. Holly doesn’t just teach students, though; she invests in families with the gospel. She told me about one family she had recently visited—a single mom working full-time while going to school, with five children ages three to fifteen.

The Satanic panic proved particularly American—a pseudospiritual crisis masking a sexist and classist one. By the end Beck’s assertion that the real culprit was a fear of women’s working outside the home—when in fact child sexual abuse mostly occurs at home—becomes hard to deny. But such mass panics frequently center on sex and sex roles: as a

She was betrothed but unmarried. Soon the watching eyes of her native Nazareth would make her the subject of their whispering and judgments.

Sawicki,