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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTHE PURITY TRAP
Last edited Tue Jan 11, 2022, 01:23 PM - Edit history (1)
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These women went to Bible college to deepen their faith. Then they were assaulted and blamed for it.
Megan Wohlers thought she had done all she needed to do. And even if she had missed something, she thought, she was on a Christian campus, full of other believerssomeone would certainly intervene.
It was the fall of 2016 when the sophomore at Moody Bible Institute, one of the countrys most prestigious evangelical colleges, started the process of getting help to extricate herself from an abusive ex-boyfriend. She tried to be systematic: She spoke with the public safety department at the school, and she wrote a letter to her ex, demanding that he leave her, her family, and her friends alone. She gave copies of the letter to a professor, the Title IX office, and Dean of Students Timothy Arens, who also promised to speak with the boy and tell him to back off. Surely, it would be enough.
Megan Wohlers thought she had done all she needed to do. And even if she had missed something, she thought, she was on a Christian campus, full of other believerssomeone would certainly intervene.
It was the fall of 2016 when the sophomore at Moody Bible Institute, one of the countrys most prestigious evangelical colleges, started the process of getting help to extricate herself from an abusive ex-boyfriend. She tried to be systematic: She spoke with the public safety department at the school, and she wrote a letter to her ex, demanding that he leave her, her family, and her friends alone. She gave copies of the letter to a professor, the Title IX office, and Dean of Students Timothy Arens, who also promised to speak with the boy and tell him to back off. Surely, it would be enough.
To read more:
https://www.motherjones.com/the_purity_trap_2000/
Or,
https://www.magzter.com/stories/News/Mother-Jones/THE-PURITY-TRAP
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THE PURITY TRAP (Original Post)
guillaumeb
Jan 2022
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TygrBright
(20,763 posts)1. The link shows no article, only a headline. n/t
DBoon
(22,397 posts)5. found this
Scrivener7
(51,007 posts)2. Totally unsurprising.
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)3. K&R for exposure
milestogo
(16,829 posts)4. "prestigious evangelical" - now there's an oxymoron