Tender Truths for the Evangelical Woman who Feels Trapped

Bare Marriage Blog

For this week’s post, Sheila Gregoire invited me to author a guest blog post over at BareMarriage.com. If you know a woman who’s looking for a safe space to ask hard questions, this piece is for her.

Megan’s hands shook as she leaned across the table.

She peered over her shoulder not once, but twice, and whispered to me, “I don’t know how to ask this. I feel like I don’t even have the language to form the question, and I don’t know what to do next.” She steadied her hands only to all but strangle her coffee mug.

“I know everything looks perfectly fine from the outside looking in, but deep in my bones I know something feels terribly wrong, and I can’t figure out why. I did everything right. I did everything they told me to do. And I feel miserable. I feel so small.”

Despite her position as a prestigious pastor’s wife in a prominent evangelical community, Megan felt alone and disoriented as she began to poke and prod at the harmful parts of the complementarian theology that the church taught her. The parts where men with power used scripture to excuse sexual abuse and platform predators, while simultaneously insisting upon her silence, her smallness, and her complicity…

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