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Sarah Stankorb

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📖 Nat. Best-seller: Disobedient Women; ✒️WaPo, Slate, NY Times, Cosmo, Marie Claire. sarahstankorb @gmail .com

Wyoming, OH

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

Today is release day for #disobedientwomen ! Thank you so much for those who shared their stories and made this book possible. Survivors of abuse and harmful teachings, may you feel seen. Advocates, may you be valued. And may all those looking for a path to healing find one.

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1 year

My kid asked: do caterpillars know they are going to become butterflies or do they just build themselves a coffin and wake up pleasantly surprised? 😳

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Um... my 6th grader defined 'preppy' to me as 'people who wear Nirvana shirts.' My brain is broken.

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3 years

Spending a bunch of time right now reading old Gothard and Dobson books for a project. These guys and their anxieties!

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@kristenmcknight She just asked the Alexa. They don't know. She finds that horrific.

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3 years

I've spent the past few months absorbing so many stories out of Moscow, Idaho, and the tendrils from a theology that has done and is doing great harm.

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Inside the Church That Preaches ‘Wives Need to Be Led with a Firm Hand’

Evangelical pastor Douglas Wilson wrote that men “conquer” and women “surrender.” Christ Church survivors are starting to speak out.

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@TommyRiot_ That is AMAZING.

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2 years

At a homeschool convention for research and so far it's as if most of the old teen purity anxiety has shifted to freak out over gender identity.

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Nosing around and it's no surprise I cannot find business filings for Gateway Church (churches are not required to do so). But I did notice something interesting in the 990s for Robert Morris Evangelistic Association starting in 2018. Morris was paid more than the annual revenue.

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2 years

I met @shannonrwatts , whose organization changed the course of my life. I got tongue-tied and later walked into a chair and knocked her clipboard and phone onto the ground. 😶

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1 year

Y'all... my editor just emailed. Disobedient Women made USA Today's best-seller list. You know what this means?? Stories of these outspoken, brave survivors and advocates are being READ all over the country. Please keep spreading the word.

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1 year

I was pulling out of the driveway in the rain yesterday and spotted a shipping envelope at my door. My editor told me a first copy of my book was on its way, so I darted out through the rain to grab the package and ran back to the car.

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2 years

@lauren_kelley Reporting at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting this week at panel about Dobbs, they told pastors 1 in 3 women in your churches have had an abortion.

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My latest, for @Newsweek . "Women have long been useful mouthpieces for conservative values in America, particularly when those values limit women's rights and roles."

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Senator Katie Britt Embodied Christian Right's Expectations of Womanhood

The up-pitched girlish voice parrots submissive smallness demanded of women in churches that place men in authority over women.

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Sarah Stankorb

8 months

Researching/writing Disobedient Women, I ran across so many people who were called ‘slanderers,’ ‘defamers,’ or ‘gossips’ for pointing out error and abuse in the church. It’s a tired, old tactic, and it does silence some. And that’s WHY these terms are thrown around.

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Y'all I published my 1st book this week... & went viral over my kid's question about caterpillars. Sounds about right. If you're interested in a very different sort of metamorphosis, check out Disobedient Women. I'll be here my kid's next Q as it comes.

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6 years

First, thanks to our @MomsDemand volunteers for always showing up. For constantly fighting. This is an outrage. Get on the phones, folks.

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Ohio @MomsDemand watched the House pass Stand Your Ground. Total disbelief, that our lawmakers would move OH in the opposite direction to prevent gun violence!Chiefs Police, Prosecuting Attorneys, Highway Patrol oppose this bill! Call your Senators, urge them to VOTE NO! #OHleg

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3 years

I have been very distressed to witness the churn over the past week, weeks, months... "Bullying is too often the favored tool in the cult of Christian masculinity, in modern American evangelicalism. Too often it works." Grateful right now, it's not.

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‘False Teachers,’ ‘Wolves,’ and Other Modern American Evangelical Smears

Recent ad hominem attacks reveal more about those threatened by open discussion of gender, race, and power within evangelicalism

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

My interview with Shannon Harris is at the top of @Slate 's homepage. We talked about her new book, which covers the inner world of a life, her life, wedged into a model of 'biblical' womanhood.

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Her Ex-Husband Wrote a Hit Book About Abstinence. Now, She’s Telling Her Side of the Story.

His work made a generation of evangelical Christians fear premarital sex. Behind the scenes, she was suffocating.

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Sarah Stankorb

3 years

I spent this summer talking to many women for various stories who were taught following God means submission to their husbands. The idea of consent dissolves, they dissociate from their bodies. Where, oh where, is the godliness in treating women like this?

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'I Didn't Want to Deny My Husband His Marital Rights': For Many Evangelical Women, Sex Comes With...

A generation of evangelical women is struggling to navigate the aftermath of purity culture

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

Just got a text from a staff member at my mom's nursing home saying she ate all her lunch and really seemed to enjoy the ladies she was sitting with today and it's these simple but profoundly thoughtful acts that show me she's OK and thoughtfully cared for.

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1 year

My daughter was listening in as I was streaming discussion of #SBC23 resolution 5, which became ever clearer concerning how Baptists feel about women in pastoral leadership. She concluded, "Well, they're gonna lose business."

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Sarah Stankorb

3 years

It can be so difficult, within an insular faith community or small town, to see a way out, to recognize what is happening to you is not okay. Especially if questioning or leaving results in isolation or rejection. There's so much risk in making yourself safe.

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

It's done. Draft #1 , at least. I submitted it to my editor earlier today. I had so many plans to post thoughtful commentary on the process. Instead, I feel like I just birthed a child. I want a nap and for someone to bring me a sandwich. #amwriting

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I was a very low-income, free lunch kid. That lunch did not do me harm. Being separated out with a different color lunch ticket was embarrassing, but getting to eat every day at school made me ready to learn. Every kid should have that + what a perk to not feel shame for eating!

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“Feeding hungry kids is actually bad”

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4 years

After 9 years working from home, starting from coworking with an infant and juggling all the home stuff while working, I start my first day today in a new office I'm renting to give myself space & work-life boundaries. It feels like sacred space. My husband packed my lunch.

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I just learned my local library system is about to order EIGHT MORE copies of Disobedient Women. (They already had 10.) I'm feeling all sorts of hometown love and library love.

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Sarah Stankorb

3 years

I don't know what gives people strength to step out, but I do know it's easier when you are not alone. The women (and a few men) I spoke to for this story were so profoundly brave, and doing so together helped make them braver.

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

Abuse cover-up within SBC was not due to atheism. People who claimed to love and fear God justified functional indifference to horrors as a means of avoiding liability. Pretending otherwise means avoiding bearing witness to the hard reality. That's what got SBC here. #SBCtoo

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Sarah Stankorb

3 years

If you have a moment, please read their story. Then share it, because systems that excuse abuse should be shown as they are--forced to improve. Please help these women know they are heard and understood. So many times before there have been attempts to silence one at a time.

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3 years

Especially if you are told this is God's path, especially if your faith leaders normalize abuse.

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10 months

It has been dizzying, tracking the "firestorm" begun by Douglas Wilson, the response from people encountering him for the first time, and the deeper story, which is behind the flashy antics, there is a theology that fosters and mishandles abuse. My latest:

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An Evangelical Pastor in Idaho Has a Yearly Plan to Make People Furious Online. This Time, It...

How much culture war is too much culture war?

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

Yesterday I also learned that Disobedient Women was one of the top five books sold at BookPeople last month in Moscow, Idaho. May more people learn they are not alone. @ExaminingMoscow

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

This is major news, and what @ChristaBrown777 and other advocates have been demanding. May the truth shine out.

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Southern Baptist Convention under federal investigation for sexual abuse scandal

The federal probe follows years of reporting from the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio...

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

My father passed away peacefully in his sleep early this morning, his 80th birthday. His sisters got a chance to say goodbye yesterday and thanks to his wonderful hospice nurse, Amanda, he was without pain. For as sick as he was, this was the gentlest path.

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Sarah Stankorb

4 years

I started this story last fall for @GENmag after reading @angela_denker 's Red State Christians. So much has changed over these months in our country, but it's offered a window into many women's faith and political thinking.

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These Evangelical Women Are Abandoning Trump and Their Churches

The #MeToo movement, pandemic, and protests for racial justice have divided the evangelical community from their strongman

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Sarah Stankorb

10 months

Imagine being told to repent for sympathizing with abuse survivors. Imagine the mind that believes itself qualified to make such a demand.

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Examining Doug Wilson & Moscow

@ExaminingMoscow

10 months

🧵/1 Doug Wilson was indeed mad about @sarahstankorb ’s VICE article featuring survivors of his abuse. First he tried to control the story, then eventually realized he couldn’t. That was when he condemned to hell anyone who read the article and publicly expressed compassion for

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5 years

Two nights of panel talking heads has been exhausting, but @VanJones68 is spot on right. The past 24 hours should be a wake up call. Put the feelings away and get the strategy figured out. Fast.

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

Thinking this morning about how many of my sources for Disobedient Women described the ways Bill Gothard’s opinions were understood as near gospel by their families. His views dictated the clothes they wore (skirt length, neckline).

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Sarah Stankorb

8 months

There's a bipartisan bill in Missouri to end child marriage up for debate and the only person speaking in opposition was Rev. Timothy Faber, a Southern Baptist pastor and former lobbyist for the Missouri Baptist Convention.

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Missouri lawmakers seek to ban child marriage without exception • Missouri Independent

A bipartisan bill debated in a state Senate committee Monday would ban child marriage in Missouri. Under current law, 16 and 17-year-olds are allowed to get married with parental consent. Marriage...

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Sarah Stankorb

6 years

@emilynussbaum I was sworn in for city council, and we don't use any texts for swearing-in. My raised hand and promise were enough. If I'd had the choice, I would have used my old pocket Constitution.

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Sarah Stankorb

3 months

Cindy Clemishire's statement on @wartwatch "I wholeheartedly and sadly believe I am not the only victim. I encourage anyone who has been sexually victimized by a leader at Gateway Church to take the bold step forward and say something."

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

And before even formally starting the speaker referenced John Wayne. @kkdumez

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Sarah Stankorb

8 months

I woke to the surprise of being cited in a Focus on the Family article. It’s a piece that conflates ‘radical feminist’ rejection of patriarchy as the cause for destabilizing families and robbing boys of opportunities to thrive.

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Protecting Our Sons: Navigating a Radical Feminist Culture

We can help our sons grow into godly men.

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

ICYMI: The excerpt of #DisobedientWomen in @ELLEmagazine that has my inbox full of folks trying to save my soul and explain what a woman's place ought to be.

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An Overdue Reckoning in Evangelical Churches

The new book Disobedient Women digs into how Christian women banded together with the power of the Internet to root out abuse.

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Sarah Stankorb

11 months

Hey, Christian Twitter (or folks just learning about Doug Wilson, Christ Church and Moscow). @VICENews ran an excerpt from Disobedient Women a few weeks ago that can serve as a primer. Some folks have been screaming about this for years.

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The Women Exposing Abuse at Their Churches

‘Disobedient Women’ tells the stories of communities controlled by pastors and powerful churches and the organizers who fought back.

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Sarah Stankorb

4 months

It was so meaningful to sit beside @ChristaBrown777 as she shared her story just a street away from #SBC2024 , thinking back to her years of advocacy. It was moving to hear @ThigpenTiffany read from Disobedient Women and talk to so many folks afterward about their own stories.

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Brian Kaylor

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After watching many #sbc24 pastors cheer for sex abuser running for prez, I'm couple blocks away listening to @sarahstankorb & @ChristaBrown777 discuss how SBC leaders protected clergy sexual abusers. Truth isn't found in room of rich & powerful but in small, unofficial convo

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1 year

The radical submission does not stop after dating. Some of the most tragic stories I've heard in my reporting are from women who absorbed Wilson's advice for marriage and became trapped in abusive marriages they were supposed to fix through sexual duty.

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Examining Doug Wilson & Moscow

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1 year

Here are screenshots of Doug Wilson grooming women to be simpering, manipulative, decorative baubles who are the property of men, and who will give up their agency and voice. Doug Wilson is selling a formula. It’s a grift. His grift dehumanizes and degrades women. Resist the

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Sarah Stankorb

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I am tired, @senrobportman . Tired of leaving you voicemails begging you to take care of your constituents. #GOPTaxPlan will hurt the health & education of Ohioans. It will hurt cities. It will increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion... to make the rich richer. You are failing us.

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

Checking how SBC sexual abuse survivors are preparing for Guidepost Solutions' report going public. Instead see guys angry @kkdumez is amplifying @jenlyell 's thread. Outrage at women speaking up instead of over abuse and coverup is part of how SBC got here.

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@MaraLeeGrayson Oh yes. I keep telling her she means 'poser.' Her brother insists she's wrong here but she's dug in her heels.

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

We learned my dad has metastatic cancer. On top of dementia. I cannot describe the agony of living a memory loop where I keep telling him he has cancer. He just asked me, "I'm going to die?" I said yes. He took it in stride somehow. I wonder how many more times I'll tell him.

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Sarah Stankorb

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Just hung up with hospice. Transitioning my dad to comfort care now. Declining rapidly.

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1 year

@jennmorson I am convinced she misunderstood the difference between 'preppy' and 'poser.' She is convinced I am wrong.

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

ICYMI: My interview with Shannon Harris for @Slate . For years after reading Josh Harris's version of their courtship, I wondered about the real woman depicted in those books.

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Her Ex-Husband Wrote a Hit Book About Abstinence. Now, She’s Telling Her Side of the Story.

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Sarah Stankorb

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I said that if I saw just *one* Disobedient Woman shirt in range of this #SBC2024 meeting it would make my week. Week made.

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Jolee Sisney

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@geekyguyjay @sarahstankorb @KarenRoudkovski @BrianKaylor @ChristaBrown777 💪🏻

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Sarah Stankorb

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Thank you @lyzl . This is so beautiful. The same word puzzles got me through one of the most relentless years of my life too.

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Doing a little word puzzle as the world burns

"I started playing word games as a way to stop reading the news first thing in the morning."

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Sarah Stankorb

4 months

Same sweet deal in 2019. (This is for a reported 15 hours a week, which as far as a side gig goes, is better than I ever made delivering papers...) This is a grab from the 2019 990.

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Sarah Stankorb

4 years

There is an actual documentary called From Paris to Pittsburgh that spotlights how American cities, featuring Pittsburgh, are stepping up in the fight against climate change. It's helping *build* the economy and helps make us all healthier and safer.

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Senator Ted Cruz

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By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he’s more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans.

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I told my daughter she could be president. I never planned to run myself. Tuesday I won my first election and will begin serving on city council December 1. Thank you Wyoming, OH voters, @VoteRunLead , @OhioYD ! It started with this: @Longreads

Don’t Call My Daughter Princess. Call Her Madam President. - Longreads

Having taken feminist progress for granted, Sarah Stankorb must now reconcile her slow support of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential race with assuring her 4-year-old daughter she can be president...

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Sarah Stankorb

3 years

@TanyaDennis And then on the opposite page, MATH! Not math that indicates the need for affordable childcare of course. But you know, working ladies with their $95/month Treat Yo Self funds!

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

Today has been such a long time coming. Thinking of people like @ChristaBrown777 and the years of fight she has fought to improve a church that viciously attacked her while instead continuing to employ her abuser.

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The SBC has known since at least 2007 that they had an abuse problem. That year, 20/20 ran a report on "Preacher Predators"

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5 years

I have received a flood of messages this week. There are so many untold stories, so much hurt that needs acknowledgment and justice. I can only imagine what @wartwatch @watchkeep and @DefendTheSheep 's inboxes look like. My piece, on today's cover of @wpmagazine :

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Sarah Stankorb

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Telling the truth takes courage. Documenting it, creating an archive of documents and vetted sources is not small feat. Defying those in power shocks them, for sometimes they overestimate the limits of their own authority.

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Sarah Stankorb

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I am thrilled to share that I am among the American Academy of Religion's Journalism Award recipients for this year. Who is headed to San Diego this November? I'll see you there!

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American Academy of Religion

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Announcing our 2024 Journalism Award Winners for in-depth newswriting! Congratulations to Aparna Gopalan, Leah Sottile, and Sarah Stankorb. Read their award-winning work:

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Sarah Stankorb

10 months

You’ve seen the video advising parents to spank children to provoke joyful greeting/compliance. Wilson’s theology also requires female submission which creates compliance. Listen to Hilary’s story. Why do I believe her? Her dad confirmed her story to me when I reported for VICE.

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Examining Doug Wilson & Moscow

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🧵/1 Can we talk a little bit more about Hilary Medina’s case? Hilary’s family were Christ Church members and Hilary attended Logos. Hilary’s case has a lot of primary witnesses in it: Hilary herself, Doug Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and a father who confessed to secretly engaging in

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

A morning read with ample grace.

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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦

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Dear Sir, We don’t know each other past a brief interaction, and in the event this finds you, wherever you are, tucked behind anonymity, I am hoping it may be of service in your walk with God. (thread)

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2 years

Next attending a workshop on Christian nationalism. (Not the title, exactly, but the evident topic.)

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Sarah Stankorb

5 years

When their churches wouldn't listen to survivors, these women did. They created platforms for fearless truth-telling, broke news, and are building the pressure for change. Thank you @wpmagazine for helping me tell their stories.

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

@hoopersnook @kristenmcknight He was probably right!

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Sarah Stankorb

3 years

@liviecampbell I oscillate. It can be so extreme. Yesterday I was laughing out loud at some of it because it was absolutely absurd. Then I talk to women whose lives were shaped by this stuff and it just breaks my heart. What a thing to do with someone else's faith.

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

Ok. Not that there is even an attempt to be trauma-informed at this point, but no survivor owes these details and if they do share, it is after developing trust. Be diligent, yes. Not entitled, and certainly not as part of a defensive Twitter attack.

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Megan Basham

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@Brent_Hobbs @TheSBCPlatform @Bec_Shrader @bobsmietana Let me ask you a simple question—what kind of abuse does Lyell claim? Rape? Groping? Some other form of assault? Do you know? If you don’t, ask yourself why she has never had to provide even this basic info.

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Sarah Stankorb

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You see a moment like this and rightly think about figures like Clinton who pushed us toward this possibility. But looking at that wistful look on Jesse Jackson's face, you think about just how many people it takes to bend history toward a moment. #DNCConvention2024

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2 years

And then Braveheart. But despite the Chrsitian social order talk that particular speaker did warn against idolatry of the flag, so at this point, that was refreshing??

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Sarah Stankorb

11 months

Paige Patterson's new book evidently argues that scripture/pastors are sufficient for providing counseling. This runs directly counter to his own horrific failures giving 'counsel' to sexual assault survivors and which led to his firing.

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Sarah Stankorb

10 months

Wilson's world is a microcosm of what Christian nationalism wedded to Christian patriarchy does to real people's lives. Abuse is normalized, excused, and mishandled. It becomes so, SO risky to speak out. I am deeply grateful to those who trusted me to help them do so.

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Examining Doug Wilson & Moscow

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/2 Now @sarahstankorb has published a book on authoritarian abuse called “Disobedient Women.” What does the title mean? In authoritarian groups, women aren’t supposed to speak and they’re certainly not supposed to speak about their abuse. Sarah interviewed several of our EDWAM

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💯YES! Men can preach patriarchy and submission all day, but it's the women who adopt, normalize and spread to their friends who help convince the next woman, and the next that this is a tolerable (or even superior) way to live.

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Jess Calarco

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It's easy to think of women's submission as a relic of a bygone era. But, as I explain in Holding It Together, many White Evangelical Christian moms accept this "hierarchy," not only because of what they read in scripture but because of what they hear from other moms. 1/

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@DefendTheSheep @ChristaBrown777 @watchkeep @emilyjoypoetry @juleswoodson11 @lyvonnebriggs @C_Stroop @R_Denhollander @eleanor_skelton @RLStollar @charlotteirene8 @ThigpenTiffany @megannlively Look to the truthtellers, friends. Those 'disobedient' and outspoken in a fight for the common good--and stand beside them.

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

I wore a long skirt in part because I didn't want to stand out. These Midwestern homeschooling moms, it seems, figured out soft pants ages ago. Like 90% yoga pants in this crowd.

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

I'm in deadline lockdown otherwise I'd want to write about it but I *need* a good culture writer to go to #EHCon2022 and vivdly detail all the super hot love for this show. Earpers are such devoted fans.

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L.J. #welcomehomewynonna

@every1welcome_

2 years

Earp’n forward 🤟🏾🚨 #Earpers headed #EHCon2022 do you have a Kat or a coveted Dom auto & want something amazing to get signed? Or simply want to own this badass artwork? Welp! I have a Lora Innes Wayhaught print I’d love you give you. Post your favorite #Wayhaught gif or moment👇🏾

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

@profsamperry Yes. I keep getting stunned by casual racism while reading/listening to early Christian homeschool books.

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Sarah Stankorb

3 years

More research from old books. This one from The Total Woman, on finding ways to submit and agree with your husband. The whole 'sizzle' thing...

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Sarah Stankorb

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Folks. There is so much wrong here, from the gleeful retelling, the scared kid forced to fake cheer, to the sense that this is parenting advice to take on good authority. Imagine how many people incorporated such guidance as godly.

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Sarah Stankorb

11 months

Today @VICE ran an excerpt from #disobedientwomen , which is some kind of double full circle. VICE gave me space to first report on the fear and high control felt in Moscow ID and to write my feature on @ChristaBrown777 . @ExaminingMoscow

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The Women Exposing Abuse at Their Churches

‘Disobedient Women’ tells the stories of communities controlled by pastors and powerful churches and the organizers who fought back.

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Sarah Stankorb

5 years

This was absolutely unexpected and humbling news. @shannonrwatts @MomsDemand @Everytown @hilarybama

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

@quakerpen @BernaMeaden She really is!

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Sarah Stankorb

8 months

If you consider that the average CSA survivor steps forward at 52, it makes sense to consider of the hundreds whose names are known, many are silently suffering.

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Kimberly KKO

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8 months

@sarahstankorb @DefendTheSheep @ChristaBrown777 @watchkeep @emilyjoypoetry @juleswoodson11 @lyvonnebriggs @C_Stroop @R_Denhollander @eleanor_skelton @RLStollar @charlotteirene8 @ThigpenTiffany @megannlively Guidepost list was ? 700 Houston Chronicle was 300 IN HOUSTON IN 2 DECADES What very few realize is HOW MANY MORE never show up on lists and yet have suffered as much or more for our reporting TO THIS DAY I don't think his "congregation" has a clue what or how many he abused❗️

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

JD Vance is going to be my senator. Worst PayPal purchase ever.

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Sarah Stankorb

2 months

Harris's face when Walz said he will debate Vance, if 'he's willing to get off the couch and show up"!

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Sarah Stankorb

6 years

@hilarybama @shannonrwatts @MomsDemand Seriously. I'm shouting it every chance I get, #MomsShouldRun . 1. Because we prioritize common sense. 2. Because we know what a struggle it can be to get representatives to listen, and we will listen. 3. Because we'll win.

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Sarah Stankorb

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@DefendTheSheep Remember the years and years SBC officials called @ChristaBrown777 a slanderer… for being honest about her abuse, a litany of other abuse she documented, and demanding reform?

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Sarah Stankorb

4 months

In 2020, still a sizeable salary, but now at least less than revenue. (From the 2020 990.)

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Sarah Stankorb

2 years

The very best purchase I have made for my mom in years is this AI therapy kitty! Thanks for the recommendations, folks. She chattered away with it.

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Sarah Stankorb

8 months

They cannot believe your commitment to the truth prevails over the fear they wish to evoke.

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

Wow. I just finished an interview for @NotSeenRadio . @DaultRadio is an absolute pro. He read Disobedient Women so deeply and his questions made me consider elements I hadn't before. I'm very excited for this one to air (and to find an excuse to chat with him again!).

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

An excerpt from #disobedientwomen was published today by @ELLEmagazine with some gorgeous art.

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An Overdue Reckoning in Evangelical Churches

The new book Disobedient Women digs into how Christian women banded together with the power of the Internet to root out abuse.

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Sarah Stankorb

11 months

I don't think she would call this morning's church conversation 'preaching,' but @ChristaBrown777 earned some Amens from the congregation. This was one of the most powerful moments I have witnessed while covering these stories. I will pull quotes from her talk soon.

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

@SpudzPasta This is a very accurate description, except add confidence and a readiness to stick up for any kid getting picked on. She's a fun force of nature herself.

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Sarah Stankorb

1 year

The Gospel Coalition, as many are noting, has platformed abusers and promoted theologies that enabled abuse. Now looking to be trusted with the response.

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Emily Joy Allison

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1 year

Oh for the love of

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Sarah Stankorb

8 months

Remember when @DefendTheSheep (along with others) was sued by her former pastor for sharing her opinion of the church… and he lost? And he then had to pay their legal fees.

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