Ending an abusive marriage is hard. Ending one in the evangelical church is harder.
By Hännah Ettinger
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Ending an abusive marriage is hard. Ending one in the evangelical church is harder.
By Hännah Ettinger
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Now that no-fault divorce is common in America, allowing victims of intimate-partner violence to escape varying degrees of abuse without much of a social cost, it can be confusing and difficult for people outside these faith traditions to understand the theological rationale driving men like Patterson and my father.
It’s a common problem in evangelical circles. Within the Together for the Gospel Coalition, or T4G, roster, a group of like-minded representatives from various evangelical denominations that holds an annual summit as a display of solidarity of purpose, many pastors have faced similar PR issues after promoting this theology. John Piper, an American Reformed Baptist pastor whose writings have made him a household name in American evangelical Christianity, has issued multiple responses to his statement that a woman in an abusive marriage should suffer for a season.