It wasn’t just junior culture warriors who were bringing militant patriarchy into the halls of power. In his investigation of the Family, the secretive group (also known as the Fellowship) that had organized the National Prayer Breakfast since the 1950s, journalist Jeff Sharlet found evidence of John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart warrior code, of knights-in-shining-armor purity culture, and of the Christian Reconstructionist-infused patriarchy of Doug Phillips’s Vision Forum. These sources fed a hypermasculine and authoritarian ethos within the organization, one that meshed well with their attempts
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