Greg Anderson

I have also wondered why many conservative evangelicals insist that submission is a one-directional thing within the confines of marriage.

Despite all of the counter examples you’ve listed here, this still seems to be the prevailing trend of thought amongst conservative evangelicals.

There is a larger picture which emerges here, and that is one of change. Change from a particular view of scripture to one that upsets the apple cart so to speak.

People fear change, and in many cases it is warranted, but not in this case. Mutual submission is not the church & family destroying bogey-man that many conservatives make it out to be.

Rather, it is an effective barrier against the rampant – behind closed doors – swept under the rug spousal abuse which has gone on for far too long in conservative protestantism.