i couldn't get through the whole article

it was far too hard for me to stomach. yes, i'm that sensitive. but if you can handle stories where it's a woman's fault she gets beaten BECAUSE SHE HASN'T SUBMITTED ENOUGH TO HER HUSBAND, well then this is for you!

if you can handle stories about people who believe women are no more than baby making, cooking, cleaning and fuck toys, well then this article is for you (there is NO such thing as saying NO to your husband!)

(the article IS written from a point of view similar to mine. i still couldn't finish it though. it really WAS making me rage)

The Purpose-Driven Wife
Teaching women to submit to their husbands, for the love of Christ.
—By Kathryn Joyce
i first encounter "teacher and exhorter" Martha Peace at a Sunday-school hall on the campus of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro, an 8,000-person megachurch in this verdant Atlanta suburb. Spacious enough to host its own congregation, the hall is flanked by ebroidered banners bearing shields, birds, and crowns. The evening's emcee, Leanne, a peppy blonde with frosty blue eye shadow, says they represent the virtues of the nearly 120 women who came to see Peace speak as part of the church's "Women of Purpose" series. As daughters of the king of kings, Leanne explains, all Christian women wear crowns. But with that honor comes a mandate to apply their faith at home.

Peace is here to help. Over the past two decades, the 62-year-old Georgia native and former nurse has written five books on biblical womanhood, conservative Christianity's answer to the women's movement. Among them are The Excellent Wife, now a classic in this burgeoning niche, and Damsels in Distress, a set of biblical solutions to female problems ranging from pms to depression to "feminist tendencies." ............

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good spousekeeping

Martha Peace on how to be the wife God intended

• On feminism: "Instead of dwelling on what I think I deserve, I should be thinking that I am to serve the Lord graciously, however He chooses."
• On widowhood: "Younger widows are to remarry rather than have idle time to gossip."
• On extramarital friendships: "Turn from wrong thinking about the other person to right thinking about God and your responsibility to honor and worship Him."
• On pms: "Lord, forgive me for maligning You. Instead, use me for your glory however you choose. If the pms symptoms have to continue, they'll just have to continue."
• On vanity: "Beauty is one of the ways the adulteress draws her prey...[but] it is all right to have some external adornment, because stripping oneself of all makeup and wearing only plain, drab clothing does not make a woman more pleasing to God.".....................