Disobedient Women Quotes

“Abuse is a unique violence when paired with faith.”
― Sarah Stankorb, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

“That loss, more than anything, demonstrated to me the risk women in high-control religious communities face. They pour everything into what they believe is the beset way to raise their children and, if they leave, jeopardize losing them in an attempt to free them and to save themselves.”
― Sarah Stankorb, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

“And while church leaders gave grief-filled interviews riddled with shock, Brown knew “they knew of this problem, religious leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention—in all levels and all places… they knew the scope of it.”40”
― Sarah Stankorb, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

“Hydoski and a few others supported Harris’s view, even as another point kept being brought up: legal advice from the insurance company. If Harris apologized, “we admit liability,” putting the church’s financial standing, ability to secure loans, maintain property, and pastors’ retirement accounts at risk if Covenant Life was found liable.”
― Sarah Stankorb, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning