CTBHHM: What about the Head Covering?
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 248—250 Once again, Debi starts with a letter. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Pearl, I wonder if you would explain to me just what it means when Scripture says that a woman should...
View ArticleCTBHHM: How to Make an Appeal
Created To Be His Help Meet, p. 253 Since the very beginning of her book, Debi has been promising readers that she will tell them how to “make an appeal” to their husbands. Here, on page 253, she...
View ArticleCTBHHM: In Which Shannon Smashes Her Husband’s Computer
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 255-258 We’re in a new chapter! It’s titled “To Obey or Not to Obey (That is the Question).” The chapter starts with a long letter. Dear Pearls, About 6 months ago, I...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Spheres of Authority
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 259-260 In this section Debi asks Michael to write about when a woman is permitted to disobey her husband. Michael goes on for pages and pages, so we will only deal...
View ArticleCTBHHM: God Does Not Override a Man’s Authority
Created To Be His Help Meet, 260-261 We’re in the section where Michael takes up the pen and explains the exceptions to the requirement for wives to obey their husbands. Last week we learned that it’s...
View ArticleCTBHHM: It Is Acceptable to God
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 262-263This is the last of Michael Pearl’s section of Debi’s book. In this section, remember, Debi’s husband Michael is explaining, from the Bible, when there are...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Sodomite Predator
Created To Be His Help Meet, p. 266Now that we’ve finished with Michael’s lengthy exposition, we’re back to Debi.Practical ExamplesYou may still be confused as to when you are to obey and when not. We...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Cross-Dressing (with a Dose of Transphobia)
Created To Be His Help Meet, p. 267Remember that we’re in the section where Debi is discussion exemptions from obedience to one’s husband. The trouble is that, as readers have pointed out, she’s not...
View ArticleCTBHHM: From Thievery to Tax Fraud
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 267—269Are you ready for another super-confusing section where Debi tries once again to paint a line between when you can disobey your husband and when you must obey,...
View ArticleCTBHHM: So Your Husband Says Not to Go to Church . . .
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 269-270Here we come to the last example Debi offers regarding when it is okay to not obey your husband. Next week we will see her attempt to sum up what she’s saying...
View ArticleCTBHHM: The Bottomless Line
Created To Be His Help Meet, p. 270Today Debi sums up her section on when women are allowed to disobey their husbands. Next week we’ll cover the story she finishes this section with—that of Abigail.The...
View ArticleCTBHHM: In Which Debi Explains Abigail
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 270-272This week we get to see Debi’s treatment of David, Abigail, and Nabal.Abigail’s StoryThe Scripture records one “exception” story, where a woman was forced by the...
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CTBHHM: Beautiful Sarah, and Abraham’s Lie
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 275-277This week we start a new chapter—”Heirs Together in the Grace of Life”—and we get another Bible story—Sarah. Are you ready?Sarah the Beautiful If I had been the...
View ArticleCTBHHM: In Which Debi Mangles Another Bible Character
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 277-279Today we get the rest of Sarah’s story. In this section Debi reads into the Bible, urges abused women to blame themselves, and sees a Sarah I don’t see. The...
View ArticleCTBHHM: What “Companionship” Means in Pearl World
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 279-80This passage is an interesting one—or at least, I found it so. Part of me wanted to like it, because Debi is talking about the importance of spouses being soul...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Playing Telephone with God
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 282Today we will cover a letter. Debi doesn’t respond to it directly, using it as a stepping stone to more discussion of being a soul mate, but it’s worth looking at...
View ArticleCTBHHM: A Young Wife Should Be “Bored and Lonely”
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 283-84In this passage Debi explains how marital bonding takes place. I hope you’re ready, because it’s bad.Early RootsThe seeds of bonding are planted early in the...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Why Was Marian’s Husband So Loving?
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 286-86Dear Mr. and Mrs. Pearl,I thought you might be interested to hear of my husband’s passing, and what a blessing it is to have been married to a husband who lived...
View ArticleCTBHHM: “I Am His Water”
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 288-89Believe it or not, next week will be the last installment of our Created To Be His Help Meet series. We’re finally there—at the end of the book. I feel like we...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Blessings and Vessels
Created To Be His Help Meet, p. 291Today is the very last page of Created To Be His Help Meet.In ClosingGod is awesome and terrible in his judgements. He is also full of mercy, and of grace. His strong...
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