![]() Turns out, I was in that world during a time when servant leadership was the model men were encouraged to follow. This book by Kristin Kobes de Mez helped me see how, yes, that violent strain was there all along, but, yes, it has ebbed and flowed. I had plenty of complaints about the policing of people’s (especially women’s) behavior and the prioritization of social issues over taking care of people, but I never experienced those who were more conservative than me as being mean. But it was 100% not my experience of that world. I’ve heard people say it was always there, and I’m sure that’s right to some degree. Yet I, like many, have been startled by the violent and hyper-aggressive turn evangelical culture has taken in recent years. Pretty much everyone in my circle voted Republican and had conservative views on issues like abortion and sexuality. For a good chunk of the 90s, I attended a conservative evangelical (Baptist) church, and most of my social circle consisted of other conservative evangelicals.
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