Stories by Kathryn Joyce
Kathryn Joyce is the author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Beacon, 2009).
Many Christian adoption agencies are far more concerned with artificially producing "orphans" for Christian parents to adopt, than helping birth parents care for wanted children.
Posted on Aug 29, 2009, Source: The Nation
Distrustful of experts, many Quiverfull followers are leaving childbirth to God. The recent death of a newborn, however, exposes a growing rift.
Posted on Jul 23, 2009, Source: Religion Dispatches
Escaping an abusive marriage is no easy task for many evangelical women, many of whom have pastors that say physical abuse is no reason for divorce.
Posted on Feb 2, 2009, Source: Religion Dispatches
A disturbing number of Christian women are throwing their support behind the "patriarchy movement."
Posted on Jan 22, 2009, Source: Religion Dispatches
The Catholic church's anti-contraception stance continues to harm women around the world, even while the majority of Catholics reject it.
Posted on Apr 24, 2008, Source: RH Reality Check
Conservatives predict a catastrophe as white birthrates in the "West" fall. Their solution? Take away women's rights and compel reproduction.
Posted on Feb 19, 2008, Source: The Nation
The Christian 'Quiverfull' movement measures a mother's spiritual resolve by the number of children she raises, each one an arrow in the quiver of God's army.
Posted on Nov 14, 2006, Source: The Nation
