we both wake up so dry
that no more tears can leave us Octoberis Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Thestatistics are staggering . So many people are affected. All too often the church is complicit in this form of violence. Worse though, the church is not merely complicit in this violence, often the church is active in legitimating a particular form of domestic violence. There are biblical injunctions that the woman should be subordinate to a man. To see how this patriarchal injunction gets played-out in a patriarchal society read this 10/15 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk Eye article. Mr. Youngblood's words are violent, whether he and the church disavow such violence now or not. These words display an assumption that a woman should stand in fear of her husband and always acquiesce to the husband's opinion. These words are tragic. The worldview these words promote are archaic. The violence these words sanction are real for too many women. ...