No Love in War: a story of Christian nationalism

"No matter when a woman leaves, she’s left too early, she’s left too late, after all this time, you’re leaving now? Perhaps things weren’t as bad as you said. You could’ve left but you didn’t. Now you’ve left, you should’ve instead stayed, at least a little longer. Look what you’ve left behind. Look at the manner of your leaving. Look who you’ve deserted. All this leaving is on my mind." This episode contains Part 2 of the Epilogue, the final chapter in No Love in War.

"To be let go is not the same as leaving." This episode contains Part 1 of the Epilogue, the final chapter of No Love in War.

"There is so much more I could say about all this, but then again, it was nothing but more of the same bombardment. Dominion-seeking man sees woman. Man wants woman. Man moves between controlling, belittling and love-bombing woman until she feels sufficiently lowly enough to submit to his will." This episode contains Chapter 33 of No Love in War, the final chapter in Section 4.

"What even was love from all these men I knew but special dispensation to treat one woman more cruelly than any other, mere proof of their worthiness in the church’s masculine mission?" This episode contains Chapter 32 of No Love in War.

"Purity culture was in full swing in conservative evangelical Christian churches, schools and campuses across the United States. None of this was new to me, of course it wasn’t. All this was typical. It was casual. It was mundane." This episode contains Chapter 31 of No Love in War.

"In 1998, our church magazine set forth the “rich heritage of Southern Presbyterianism,” lamenting the progressing decline of the Presbyterian Church in America, most particularly its seminary president’s willingness to accept broader interpretations of the creation narrative in Genesis 1." This episode contains Chapter 30 of No Love in War.

"Over several long sessions, our professor spoke about the joys of the hetero-marital union, then veered into his true passions, the danger of women’s domination, the importance of home-cooked meals on the table every evening—the family that eats together, lives at peace together—the necessity of children, he argued vehemently against oral contraception, what he called women’s desire to “poison” ourselves with “those pills.”" This episode contains Chapter 29 of No Love in War.

"For while Christian leaders on the national stages quarrelled and set their sights on the reclamation of land they considered theirs by divine right, the men in my life carried on seeking more immediate dominion over me. And not just me, of course not. Close to 800,000 men of the Promise Keepers movement gathered in a mass spectacle in 1997 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to freeze-frame Biblical manhood, to reclaim it, to urge each man to sit down with his wife, to repent of the mistake of allowing her to lead their family and to take charge." This episode contains Chapter 28 of No Love in War.

"Within the first few months of my freshman year at Christian university, one of my fellow incomers left the campus permanently after hitting his girlfriend." This episode contains Chapter 27 of No Love in War.

"My high school graduation marked the start of the summer when our pastor stepped into the role of State Chairman for Howard Phillips’s U.S. Taxpayer’s Party, later renamed the Constitution Party." This episode is the first in the final section, Fire, of No Love in War.