We are invited into the practice — the shaking, the songs, the religious euphoria of their worship.

Any woman with the gift of teaching and preaching, a grasp of the Bible and ability to speak authoritatively, was a threat to the white

Assume the best in ourselves and in others and get curious. Aim to connect rather than convince!

Though it might be artificial, manufactured, and overproduced, reality television can still offer a lens into religious belief and religious practice, and like many other

I feel strongly that it’s disingenuous for churches to make their beliefs hard to find. It comes across as preying on vulnerable people.

This pressure to constantly monitor their behavior and die to self meant many of them dealt with internalized shame.

The aim of rhetoric of traditional ideas of gender and femininity, framed as if it’s caring for women’s overall well-being, is to control them..

Fredrick reflects on the changes he witnessed from the Iowa of his childhood to Iowa now with its massive industrial farms, gutted small towns, and

Levings’ and Lenz’s memoirs trace the way both women were drawn into high-control, conservative Christian groups, trapped in patriarchal marriages, and ultimately made their escapes.