Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | Summer 2025
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Mutuality offers articles from diverse writers who share egalitarian theology and explore its intersection with everyday life.
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Summer 2025
Volume: 32 | Number: 2
Why Her? Understanding the Subjugation of Women in Cults and Controlling Religious Groups
The articles in this issue include the real experiences of people who have been able to leave cults and high-control religious groups.
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The articles in this issue include the real experiences of people who have been able to leave cults and high-control religious groups.
A passionate new Christian breaks free from a controlling fellowship to reclaim her mind and relationship with God.
Shame and belittling are used to silence women and keep them "in their place."
Cults use powerful psychological techniques to enforce compliance and maintain control.
Leaving a controlling religious group may feel impossible, but there are tools to foster recovery and hope for a future of freedom.
In Recovering from Purity Culture, Camden Morgante draws from her own experience, therapeutic expertise, and academic research to dismantle the myths of purity culture and give her readers practical tools to overcome damaging thought patterns of shame and erroneous beliefs about sex, purity, and sexuality.
I cannot think of a better resource than that of Francis Collins’s The Road to Wisdom in determining what should be trusted and how to avoid manipulation and control.