The Warrior Wives of Evangelical Christianity - The Atlantic

The Warrior Wives of Evangelical Christianity - The Atlantic



The Warrior Wives of Evangelical Christianity - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/11/the-warrior-wives-of-evangelical-christianity/382365/



"Evangelical sexuality is overwhelmingly framed in opposition to "mainstream" culture. "Over the past thirty or forty years, evangelicals have been galvanized, often by pastors, and sometimes political leaders, to look at secular culture and see it as being in opposition to moral values, traditional values, Biblical values," DeRogatis said. This has created a sense of division between evangelicals and the rest of American culture, and "one of the arenas where that gets worked out has to do with sexuality.""