Beverly LaHaye
Born
Beverly Jean Davenport Ratcliffe

(1929-04-30) April 30, 1929
Oakland County, Michigan, U.S.
Alma materHighland Park Community High School, Bob Jones University
SpouseTim LaHaye (m. 1947–2016; his death)

Beverly LaHaye (born April 30, 1929) is an American Christian conservative activist and author who founded Concerned Women for America (CWA) in San Diego, California in 1979. She was the wife of Tim LaHaye, the evangelical Christian minister and prolific author of the Left Behind series, until his death in 2016.

Life and education

Beverly Jean was born in metro Detroit, Michigan on April 30, 1929, to Lowell Ardo and Nellie Elizabeth (née Pitts) Davenport.[1] Her father was a factory worker in Southfield, Michigan and died of a ruptured appendix when Beverly was almost two years old.[2] Within two years, Nellie Elizabeth married Daniel Ratcliffe, a tool maker in the auto industry in Oakland County, Michigan.[3] From then on, Beverly Jean and her older sister Blanche Aileen used their stepfather's surname as their own.[4] She graduated from Highland Park Community High School in 1946, the highest degree she would ever earn.[5] She attended Bob Jones University (then named Bob Jones College) one year and married Tim LaHaye after that year in 1947.[6] In 69 years of marriage, the LaHayes had four children,[7] Linda, Larry, Lee, and Lori,[8] and nine grandchildren.[9]

Published works

LaHaye and her husband co-authored The Act of Marriage: The Beauty of Sexual Love in 1976.[10]

LaHaye wrote The Spirit-Controlled Woman in 1976,[11] a companion to her husband's book The Spirit-Controlled Temperament. A revised and expanded edition of the book, The New Spirit-Controlled Woman, was released in 2005.[12] The Desires of a Woman's Heart was released in 1993.[13]

Concerned Women for America (CWA)

LaHaye formed Concerned Women for America in 1979.[14] Initially, CWA was a reaction to the National Organization for Women and a 1978 Barbara Walters interview with feminist Betty Friedan.[15] LaHaye stated that she believed Friedan’s goal was "to dismantle the bedrock of American culture: the family,"[16] and that Christian women were not included in discussions of women's rights. LaHaye held a rally in a local San Diego auditorium which marked the beginning of CWA.[16] While CWA was originally intended to be a local group, the organization was established nationwide within two years.[17] The organization calls itself "the nation's largest public policy women's organization devoted to biblical principles."[18] When CWA's headquarters moved to Washington, D.C., LaHaye "announced at a press conference: 'This is our message: the feminists do not speak for all women in America, and CWA is here in Washington to end the monopoly of feminists who claim to speak for all women.'"[19]

CWA is a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code[20] that is "supported by hundreds of local chapters across the country."[19] In 2014, Salon stated that "CWA [had] become a powerful political force, claiming over half a million members."[14]

Bibliography

  • How to Develop Your Child's Temperament (1977) OCLC 3312367
  • I Am a Woman by God's Design (1980) OCLC 6813275
  • The Act of Marriage: The Beauty of Sexual Love (1976) OCLC 1859880 (co-authored with Timothy LaHaye)
  • The Desires of a Woman's Heart (1993)
  • The Restless Woman (1984) OCLC 10912698
  • The Spirit-Controlled Woman (1976) OCLC 3033275

References

  1. ↑ Year: 1930; Census Place: Southfield, Oakland, Michigan; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 0125; FHL microfilm: 2340754
  2. ↑ "Lowell Ardo Davenport, Death Certificate" (PDF).
  3. ↑ Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 174; Film Title: 63 Oakland 06850-10109; Film Description: Oakland (1930-1933)
  4. ↑ Year: 1940; Census Place: Southfield, Oakland, Michigan; Roll: m-t0627-01803; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 63-166C
  5. ↑ "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Highland Park Community High School; Year: 1946
  6. ↑ Peterson, Karla (July 26, 2016). "Author Tim LaHaye dies at age 90".
  7. ↑ Bates, Stephen (July 28, 2016). "Tim LaHaye obituary". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  8. ↑ McFadden, Robert D. (July 25, 2016). "Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader's Grisly Novels Sold Millions". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  9. ↑ "Boss Lady". Chicago Tribune. May 26, 1992.
  10. ↑ LaHaye, Tim, and Beverly LaHaye. The Act of Marriage: The Beauty of Sexual Love. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1998.
  11. ↑ Mason, Carol (January 24, 2018). "Right-Wing Literature in the United States since the 1960s". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.34. ISBN 9780190201098 – via oxfordre.com.
  12. ↑ Lahaye, Beverly (July 2005). The New Spirit-Controlled Woman. ISBN 9780736915953 – via www.christianbook.com.
  13. ↑ Snyder-Hall, R. Claire (2008). "The Ideology of Wifely Submission: A Challenge for Feminism?". Politics & Gender. 4 (04): 563–586. doi:10.1017/S1743923X08000482. S2CID 145173940.
  14. 1 2 Smith, Leslie (July 29, 2014). "How conservative Christian women came to claim "true" feminism". Salon.com. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  15. ↑ Gardiner, S., "Concerned Women for America: A Case Study Archived 2013-09-26 at the Wayback Machine", Feminism and Women's Studies, August 28, 2006. Online as of April 19, 2007.
  16. 1 2 Beverly LaHaye marks three decades of promoting traditional values through CWA Archived September 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Christian Examiner.com, 20 December 09. Retrieved: September 14, 2013.
  17. ↑ Henry, Tamara (September 2, 1992). "Group says school censorship increasing". Associated Press. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
  18. ↑ Stanley, Paul (January 25, 2013). "4 Most Powerful Pro-Life Female Voices". Christian Post. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  19. 1 2 Johnson, Emily (September 16, 2014). "Us v. Them: The Pitfalls of Righteous Rhetoric". ReligionAndPolitics.org. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  20. ↑ Concerned Women for America Fact Check.Org, October 2010. Retrieved: September 14, 2013.
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