A Christian Case Against spanking children
I’m glad you’re here. I’ve created a number of resources that make the Christian case against spanking.
top three
You can also find me speaking at length about these things on Instagram (I have five highlights with reels making the case against spanking and stitching popular Christian parenting teachers advocating for spanking) and on this YouTube playlist.
Additional articles I’ve written on this topic:
Reigns of terror in the us department of war: Christian parenting, politics, and the cultivation of cruelty
Estrangement in evangelical families
Retributive Punishment in Christian Parenting And Why Pontius Pilate Is Not Exemplary for the Christian
Why christian parents are some of the last defenders of corporal punishment
dragging what happens behind closed doors into the light: utilizing story-telling to effect change
why is it so hard for christian parents to give up spanking their children?
the litigation of popular christian parenting teaching: when ritualized spanking intersects with #churchtoo
an invitation for christian parents to own their choices: and why it’s long past time for our community to denounce “spanking”
does god spank people? Hebrews 12, angry fathers, and rewriting god after our own image
when christian adults joke about spanking small children: it’s not funny
maniuplative babies, cry-it-out-methods and what that says about our theology: good news! God loves us!
the politics of evangelical siblinghood: maybe we all didn’t turn out fine