Thank you for sharing your friend's post as well, that is helpful context too although I have not read the biographies yet. I appreciated your review and this post. Elisabeth Elliot was not my primary voice on purity culture (and I was born in 1991 so some of that is age), but I read her books and definitely had a lot of admiration for her. Her Let Me Be a Woman book was probably the biggest influence, but not as much as Vision Forum for me, so in that way I can't blame her for anything. Passion and Purity, when I finally read in my late teens, I found unsettling even then. It makes so much sense now that I have read more about their relationship. It breaks my heart that that pattern continued.
Thank you so much for writing that Revealer article! I really appreciated your perspective. Passion and Purity had an outsized influence on the ideals I held for my own life and I appreciated learning from you about the rest of Elliot’s story. Now I need to go read both biographies for myself. :-)
Good points again, and thanks again for getting the conversation started. And touché on the meek inheriting the earth!! I was thinking about it specifically in terms of "easily imposed on" fr the dictionary definition, but you're absolutely right that she was aspiring to Sermon on the Mt. meekness.
Thank you for sharing your friend's post as well, that is helpful context too although I have not read the biographies yet. I appreciated your review and this post. Elisabeth Elliot was not my primary voice on purity culture (and I was born in 1991 so some of that is age), but I read her books and definitely had a lot of admiration for her. Her Let Me Be a Woman book was probably the biggest influence, but not as much as Vision Forum for me, so in that way I can't blame her for anything. Passion and Purity, when I finally read in my late teens, I found unsettling even then. It makes so much sense now that I have read more about their relationship. It breaks my heart that that pattern continued.
Thank you so much for writing that Revealer article! I really appreciated your perspective. Passion and Purity had an outsized influence on the ideals I held for my own life and I appreciated learning from you about the rest of Elliot’s story. Now I need to go read both biographies for myself. :-)
Good points again, and thanks again for getting the conversation started. And touché on the meek inheriting the earth!! I was thinking about it specifically in terms of "easily imposed on" fr the dictionary definition, but you're absolutely right that she was aspiring to Sermon on the Mt. meekness.