Journey through Deconstruction
How Complementarianism Sustains Abuse: My Story
***I do not go into details concerning my abuse. I focus on how the rules of complementarianism kept me in Read more…
Journey through Deconstruction
What Hill Are You Willing to Die On?
Your salvation is not tied to your interpretation of gender roles (complementarianism). Period. What’s more, you can still believe in Read more…
Journey through Deconstruction
A Cult Rebranded
Once The Making of Biblical Womanhood gets into the early modern period, we start to see more of the roots Read more…
Journey through Deconstruction
Your Bible’s Bias
I almost didn’t write about this. I wasn’t sure if it would be helpful, or if it would come off Read more…
Journey through Deconstruction
The Highest Calling
There were obviously big picture take-aways from The Making of Biblical Womanhood that impacted me; and yet, I found some Read more…
Journey through Deconstruction
A Sacrifice is Still a Sacrifice
I said in a previous post that Beth Allison Barr’s book is a history book. She therefore does not pass Read more…
Journey through Deconstruction
Silent in Church (Or, Maybe Not)
Beth Allison Barr and Aimee Byrd overlap in another significant area: putting difficult passages into historical context. Significantly, they both Read more…
Journey through Deconstruction
Interrupting the Patriarchy
Ok, now to get to the books. It’s been interesting to see how Aimee Byrd’s Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Read more…
Journey through Deconstruction
What is Complementarianism?
Before we fully dive into Beth Allison Barr’s book, I think it’s important to restate what complementarianism is. It’s a Read more…
Journey through Deconstruction
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: The Book that Changed my Life
My blogs on Aimee Byrd’s Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood stopped abruptly. At the time, I was a little Read more…