Desiring God or Demeaning Women?
Challenging the Patriarchal Teachings of John Piper’s Platform
Desiring God is the brainchild of renowned conservative evangelical preacher John Piper. It’s a website that publishes articles with the stated aim of “helping people everywhere embrace a profound truth that changes everything about life and eternity.”
But recently, I saw a post on Twitter/X that came from ‘Desiring God,’ that was neither profound — except in its wrongness — or true, or life-changing for that matter. In fact, I found the post downright infuriating. Before I explain why, I’ll let you have a read of the offending Tweet for yourself:
Out of all the awful Tweets, this is up there. But what is worse is that this tweet is actually a pull quote from an article entitled “How Satan Undoes a Mom: Spiritual War in Motherhood.”
If you want to read the whole article, here’s the link. Have a barf bag handy while you read. For those who lack the stomach to read this tripe, let me summarize it for you.
Basically, the whole article explains how the home is one of Satan’s key targets. So women need to defend their…
