"When I was growing up as a young evangelical pastor's kid in the 90s and early 2000s, I often heard the phrase
"family values.'''
"I always assumed this meant following the Bible, keeping the Ten
Commandments, not consuming "bad" forms of media, like Harry Potter or secular music (gasp!), and living in the fruits of the spirit."
Sonya Rose Hartfield
"It wasn't until much later that I realized that family values, as defined by James Dobson and other evangelical leaders like him, had an entirely different meaning."
Read more about redefining family Values on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/sonyaros... #exvangelical #deconstruction #jamesdobson #writingcommunity #writesky