The Wife with Boundaries: Changing the Conversation on Biblical Submission [Episode 184]
Is there poison in your home?
No, I don’t mean rat poison or toxic chemicals or asbestos. It’s words. On pages. In a book. One that’s given as a wedding gift. When times are tough. When you’re desperate. When you’ve run out of ideas and options to help your marriage and somebody gives you 336 pages of “hope.”
The poison is the answer ringing from every page of this book. You were, as Debi Pearl puts it, “Created to Be His Help Meet.” And lots of women have gulped it down, me included.
Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Sweet. Simple. Godly.
Because double standards and coercive control and whitewashed tombs are biblical, right?
In this interview with Chelsea Wells, she and I discuss the poisonous messages of Debi Pearl’s book before we toss them in the shredder.