Andy Seal: One of the key ideas that runs through your book is how important a more flexible reading of the “submission doctrine” was to these women and to their understanding of when they could step forward and claim a public role. Would you explain a bit of the history behind this idea and why it has been so important to the politics of the family among evangelical Christians, and specifically to the women you’ve written about? Emily Suzanne Johnson: The doctrine of submission is based on Paul’s letters in the biblical New Testament, especially Ephesians 5:22, which says: “Wives, Read more