I read through the entire article looking, then hoping, then praying I’d find the punch line. Oh, friends, there was no punch line. Author Lori Alexander is as serious as a heart attack. And her ultra-conservative article set daughters of Christ back a few millennia and also broke the internet. Gracious, friends. That article is full of condescending judgment, not at all based in scripture. It made me angry, but more than that, it made me scared. My chest tightened in anxiety as I read it.
I was scared and anxious reading this article because I’m afraid some beautiful daughter searching for Christ might read it and decide, “Um…no way. This kinda God is NOT for me.” Mrs. Alexander says on her website that her goal is to teach younger women what she has learned from God’s word. But this particular article and the attributes of a desirable women she expounds upon—namely virginity, lack of debt and a tattoo-less bod—are not where scripture teaches our value as women lies.