Preface by Barbara Roberts This post has also been published at Substack. (That's been my practice since mid-2024.) There's more discussion at Substack than at this blog, so you might like to check out my Substack and get involved in the discussion there. In this post, a Christian woman from India describes how Indian churches… Continue reading Indian churches are persecuting women who are victims of domestic violence
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If a man hates his wife he should set her free from the marriage. That’s what Malachi 2:16 says. Updated post.
Malachi 2:15 has been mistranslated and used as a clobber verse to shame abused wives. Some recent English versions have slightly improved their translation of this verse, but to my knowledge none have given serious consideration to how Myles Coverdale translated it in the early 1500s. In Coverdale's translation, God says to husbands: "If you… Continue reading If a man hates his wife he should set her free from the marriage. That’s what Malachi 2:16 says. Updated post.