(RNS) — A new book shines a light on sexual abuse in evangelical churches, from Bill Gothard and Josh Duggar to the purity culture underneath it all. (RNS) — When girls and women are taught that ...

"Disobedient Women," a new book by journalist Sarah Stankorb centers the voices of women who sounded the alarm on church abuse. Book looks at abuse in Christian homeschooling movement, the Southern ...

Journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet--its networks, freedom of expression, and resources for deeply researching and reporting on powerful church figures--allowed women to ...

Two artists in Kentucky designed a summer workshop for teens called The School of Needlework for Disobedient Women, using embroidery as an avenue to explore feminism, activism and self-expression.

During the height of the #MeToo movement, the Southern Baptist Convention faced its own reckoning with allegations of abuse against women. These women say they were brought up to believe submitting to ...

Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting skills quickly surpass her father’s, but society dictates that as a woman, she must stay home and protect her virtue. Art — with its unsavory types and naked models — ...

Patrons of the Carey Hotel bar in Wichita, Kansas may well have heard that sound on Dec. 27, 1900 as Prohibition activist Carrie Nation smashed up liquor bottles and glasses with a hatchet, causing ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Thursday re-stated the Roman Catholic Church's ban on women priests and warned that he would not tolerate disobedience by clerics on fundamental teachings.

Journalist Stankorb debuts with an intimate and engrossing look at how a small number of evangelical women have engaged in an “online battle” with the American evangelical church, challenging the ...