Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife
My Story of Finding Hope after Domestic Abuse

I very much wanted to read what Ruth Tucker had to say. Unfortunately … I was disappointed. Part of my disappointment springs from a few concepts that weren’t integral to the book, yet were still glaring issues. Most obvious among these (and one I’m struggling to understand why she bothered including......more

I’m having trouble deciding how I feel about this book. While I didn’t want to read a detailed accounting of all the abuse Tucker went through in her first marriage, I expected that most of the book would deal with that, given the title and subtitle of the book. Instead, the largest part of the book......more

Ruth Tucker boldly raises questions that the patristic, so-called complimentarian, leaders ignore. While not making a direct correlation (this book is not scientific it is biographical) between complimentarian teaching and abuse, her experience, and that of thousands of other women (probably more th......more

I went into Ruth Tucker's Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife with high hopes. I knew it would be a difficult read given the subject matter, but I thought that it would be an important book looking at the way the Bible can be used to allow and even support abuse in the home and then arguing a......more