Most of our listeners are not in the kind of church that culturally and theological demeans, abuses and restricts girls and women. Therefore, it is easy for us to detach ourselves from the type of congregational contexts we’ve seen uncovered through the work of scholars such as Beth Allison Barr and Kristen Kobes Du Mez. And our detachment from these kinds of churches can prevent us from looking at how our churches can also create microaggressions against women and girls.

“It was a unique dichotomy, the degree to which girls and young women were expected to forge themselves into a model of submissive femininity supposedly ordained by God-requiring a market of goods to define how and why they must do so—while men (and some women) built ministries and capital on the promise of Christian cultural supremacy,” said Sarah Stankorb on the CBF Podcast Conversation. 

Stankorb, a writer with her work appearing in The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, The Guardian, and The Atlantic, sat down to discuss her new book, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning.

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Andy Hale is the creator and host of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Podcast. Hale is the Associate Executive Coordinator of CBF North Carolina. He’s also served as CBF’s Church Start Specialist, the founding pastor of Mosaic Church of Clayton, and the senior pastor of University Baptist Church of Baton Rouge. Follow on Twitter @haleandy.