Homeschooling, large families, Biblical womanhood, and quiverfull - they are all part of the Christian patriarchy movement, which promises parents a legacy of godly children if they adhere to specific Biblical principles. But what happens when families who abandon "the world" for "the Biblical home" leave hearts behind, too? For many wives and daughters, the Christian home is not always a safe place. Scripture is used to manipulate. God is used as a weapon. And through spiritual and emotional abuse, women who become "the least of these" within Biblical patriarchy experience deep wounds that only God can heal. But if living "God's way" caused this pain, why should they trust Him to heal it? - publisher website.

American evangelicals are known for focusing on the family, but the Quiverfull movement intensifies that focus in a significant way. Often called "Quiverfull" due to an emphasis on filling their "quivers" with as many children as possible (Psalm 127:5), such families are distinguishable by their practices of male-only leadership, homeschooling, and prolific childbirth. Their primary aim is "multigenerational faithfulness" - ensuring their descendants maintain Christian faith for many generations. Many believe this focus will lead to the Christianization of America in the centuries to come. Quivering Families is a first of its kind project that employs history, ethnography, and theology to explore the Quiverfull movement in America. The book considers a study of the movement's origins, its major leaders and institutions, and the daily lives of its families. Quivering Families argues that despite the apparent strangeness of their practice, Quiverfull is a thoroughly evangelical and American phenomenon. Far from offering a countercultural vision of the family, Quiverfull represents an intensification of longstanding tendencies. The movement reveals the weakness of evangelical theology of the family and underlines the need for more critical and creative approaches.

'Mid-September 2008, I was on the phone with Curtis. I was sitting in a rocking chair, which was an inherited gift from my mother-in-law, Linda. It had been Curtis's great-grandfather's chair. As I sat talking to Curtis, all of a sudden this heart-wrenching moan came from the depths of my being. It felt like it traveled up the middle of me, following my spine like a country road along a riverbed. I bent very low as the cry finished its travel through my body. There was searing pain with the deep cry and a burning heat that remained for several minutes. Curtis and I sat there in stunned silence. What on earth had just happened to me?' Cara Ann Coffey's story is one rarely told yet one that needs to be heard. Cara spent much of her life struggling within the Body of Christ, trying to determine God's true will. With so many different interpretations swirling around that were sometimes confusing, it was difficult for Cara to find the right path. But what made life even more difficult for a twelve-year span was something even harder to battle. Cara was almost driven insane in 2008. Why? Demonic interference. Many things had to change to remove the oppression, but this journey would lead Cara to many of the answers she had sought throughout the years. In Uncovered No More, readers will witness an intense battle that was indeed won with the help of Christ. Take the journey with her.

This compelling LBGTQ novel by LAMBDA award-winning author Watts explores the unlikely friendship between Libby, the oldest child in a rural Tennessee family of strict evangelical Christians, and Zo, her gender fluid new neighbor.

Kathryn Joyce's fascinating introduction to the world of the patriarchy movement and Quiverfull families examines the twenty-first-century women and men who proclaim self-sacrifice and submission as model virtues of womanhood—and as modes of warfare on behalf of Christ. Here, women live within stringently enforced doctrines of wifely submission and male headship, and live by the Quiverfull philosophy of letting God give them as many children as possible so as to win the religion and culture wars through demographic means.