Same Old Song

Sarah Stankorb
11 min readFeb 16, 2024

The recent Atlantic essay defending Dobson and slamming authors like Barr and Kobes Du Mez is a tired sort of disingenuous critique

Taylor Swift, overlaid atop images of books The Making of Biblical Womanhood and Jesus & John Wayne.

A Surprise Fea

Last week, The Atlantic published an essay by John Fea that argued certain recent books critiquing evangelicalism run “flat” and neglect how some of the movement’s leaders’ influence did benefit believers. Fea’s thesis was that for all the bad that came out of the…

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Sarah Stankorb

Sarah Stankorb has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic (among others). @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com