339: Patriarchal Church Structures & Heightened Risk of Violence/Abuse in Marriage

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Religion

4.4 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: In-depth Exploration of Patriarchy & its Correlation to Violence & Abuse [Part VIIof X] In today's episode, Val & Nathan walk through the layered risk factors around spousal violence/abuse that married couples are exposed to when belonging to a formalized institutional patriarchal church. Reinforcement of male authority, inadequately trained clergy offering counseling services, isolation from external oversight/support, and tendencies to pr...

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0:45.1	Hey everybody. Welcome to Latterday Struggles.com. Hey everybody. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie. Excited to be here with you all today.
0:49.1	Excited to have you with me. How are you, Nathan Hamaker? I am excited to be back. Yeah, we had a lot of fun, if that's possible. I guess it is possible. We have fun because we enjoy being with each
0:54.7	other and talking about important things, albeit these things that we're talking about
0:59.1	are pretty heavy. This is a heavy topic. We have been tackling for the last many weeks,
1:04.5	patriarchy and its impact on our correlation to violence and abuse. And last episode, we jumped into sort of a macro
1:14.1	exploration of patriarchy and intimate partner violence and abuse. And today we're going to go
1:20.7	deeply into this as it relates to added risks when you live not only in a patriarchal world, but when you live in a patriarchal
1:31.4	church system that has formalized in its theology that patriarchy is ordained of God.
1:39.4	And so there are, in fact, added risks of intimate partner violence when a couple is part of that kind of
1:48.1	religious community because you take what's sort of in the culture that's been embedded in
1:54.6	the woman and the man about what it means to be male and what it means to be female.
1:59.6	And then you explicitly teach some of these
2:03.6	things. And in some ways, you may even find yourself justifying or willfully ignoring,
2:12.5	not willing to look at certain things that are problematic because of the loyalty that you have to your church
2:19.0	system, kind of like maybe this doesn't feel good, but because I know the church is true,
2:24.2	it must be true. Like it has to be okay. And we want to be respectful about this topic because we
2:31.4	want to, I want a presence at least that I don't feel like anyone is ever
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