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In 1974, evangelical women were publishing biblical arguments for full equality — and the door stood open. Fifty years later: constitutional pulpit bans, purity rings, quivers full of arrows, the 81 percent, tradwife feeds, and 'household voting.' A ReThink History series tracing the sixty-year, documented plan that recast Christian women from partners to supporting cast — measured, sourced, and steelmanned — and the verdict now being delivered by the daughters, who are leaving at the highest rates ever measured. Ten episodes. One question: whose voice counts? AI-narrated from human-researched, primary-source dossiers. Educational use: https://agzhvmuekfiebxwywwan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/rethink-history/Educational-Use-License.html

  1. Episode 1

    Ep 1 — The Open Door — When Women Led the Evangelical Church

    Evangelical women once preached to thousands, led the largest women's organization on earth, and outnumbered men two to one on the mission field. By 1974 they were building a biblical feminism from inside the movement itself. Episode 1 recovers the forgotten baseline — Palmer, Willard, McPherson, Addie Davis — and the early-1970s spring of evangelical feminism. So who closed the door? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z6fEM9XauEw

  2. Episode 2

    Ep 2 — STOP — The Women Who Defeated the ERA

    The ERA sailed out of Congress in 1972; ten years later it was dead — killed, overwhelmingly, by women. Schlafly's kitchen tables, the Total Woman, Gothard's arenas, Houston 1977, and Concerned Women for America: the counter-revolution, steelmanned then audited. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/76Tp8muF2kU

  3. Episode 3

    Ep 3 — The Takeover — How the SBC Purged Women from the Pulpit

    Houston, 1979: a precinct-style plan captures America's largest Protestant denomination — and within a generation, a denomination whose churches had ordained women since 1964 writes them out of the pulpit. The resolutions, the seminary purges, and the template of institutional capture. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wYR-T-aAuqo

  4. Episode 4

    Ep 4 — Equal, But — The Invention of Complementarianism

    Danvers, 1987: an old arrangement gets a new word — equal in value, different in role. The complementarian case at full strength, the egalitarian answer, the translation wars, and the Trinity controversy that revealed the doctrine's priorities. What does 'equal' still mean? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8GXtKtEV_oQ

  5. Episode 5

    Ep 5 — Pure — The Heavy Toll of Purity Culture

    Two hundred thousand pledge cards on the National Mall; a generation later, the movement's best-selling author unpublished his own book and left the faith. True Love Waits, purity rings, the Bearman–Brückner data, and the documented harvest — sincere intentions, audited outcomes. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6keidBOO7pE

  6. Episode 6

    Ep 6 — Full Quiver — The Demographic Project

    Children as arrows, wombs as munitions: Mary Pride, Quiverfull, Gothard's IBLP, Vision Forum, and the Duggars — and the women who wrote their way out of the velvet cage. Court records and survivor testimony carry the episode. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IB660QKZ1EM

  7. Episode 7

    Ep 7 — Eighty-One Percent — Banned Her, Shielded Him

    The merger with power and the reckoning it smothered: #ChurchToo, Patterson's fall, 'Abuse of Faith,' the Guidepost report, Beth Moore's exit — and an institution that moved faster against churches led by women than churches that sheltered abusers, through the 74.66% first vote of June 2026. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mX0I6gIqWE8

  8. Episode 8

    Ep 8 — The Algorithm's Housewife — Tradwives and the Velvet Cage

    From Fascinating Womanhood (1963) to Ballerina Farm and Nara Smith: how a submission script found the smartphone. The genuine appeal taken seriously — then the breadwinner irony, the sales funnel, and the trap documented by the women who left. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Rk4WMFzROhc

  9. Episode 9

    Ep 9 — One Vote per Household — Coverture Returns

    'In my ideal society, we would vote as households, and I would ordinarily be the one that would cast the vote.' Doug Wilson's Moscow project, the amplification chain to the Pentagon, and the nineteenth-century doctrine walking back into American politics — the record read flat, every quote attributed. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SOUIOtR12DM

  10. Episode 10

    Ep 10 — The Law of Large Numbers — The Daughters Answer

    The finale: 43 percent of women under thirty now claim no religion — the centuries-old piety gap closed from the women's side. The exodus data, the decision science (Gottman, Condorcet), and the compiler's model: equal votes, reasoned discussion, no tiebreaker — and the law of large numbers rendering its verdict. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qjtfycP7LR4

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In 1974, evangelical women were publishing biblical arguments for full equality — and the door stood open. Fifty years later: constitutional pulpit bans, purity rings, quivers full of arrows, the 81 percent, tradwife feeds, and 'household voting.' A ReThink History series tracing the sixty-year, documented plan that recast Christian women from partners to supporting cast — measured, sourced, and steelmanned — and the verdict now being delivered by the daughters, who are leaving at the highest rates ever measured. Ten episodes. One question: whose voice counts? AI-narrated from human-researched, primary-source dossiers. Educational use: https://agzhvmuekfiebxwywwan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/rethink-history/Educational-Use-License.html

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