Worthwhile Reads: Evangelicalism, LGBTQ, and Hate

May 23, 2012 By Libby Anne Leave a Comment

Melissa’s spouse, Haley, has written a guest post on Melissa’s blog called When You Are Everything You Were Taught to Hate. Haley, remember, is a transsexual woman raised in an evangelical quiverfull home who served as a conservative pastor for several years before coming out as a woman and leaving the ministry.

How many more parents need to raise their children while being afraid that they are not teaching them all the “right ways” and therefore find their identity as parents threatened when a child turns out gay, loses faith, or has anything happen that is off the evangelical script? The fear of raising kids “right” is a huge burden for evangelical parents. How many more kids have to grow up fearing that they are everything they have been taught to hate?

It’s a must-read. So go read it!

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Raised Quiverfull: Homeschooling, Q. 3

May 23, 2012 By Libby Anne 8 Comments

Raised Quiverfull Introduction — Homeschooling Summary

Please be sure to click the above links to see an introduction to and explanation of this project, which involves a panel of nine young adults who were raised in Quiverfull families and have since questioned and left that ideology answering questions about their experiences.

What do you see as the pros and cons of having been homeschooled? Do you feel that your homeschool experience prepared you well socially? Academically? [Read more...]

Filed Under: College, Education, Homeschool, Indoctrinate, Sheltering 8 Comments

On Positive Parenting and Saying “I’m Sorry”

May 22, 2012 By Libby Anne 10 Comments

Today I yelled at Sally. I was trying to finish a project and she was getting in the way again and again and I just snapped. I stormed upstairs to finish what I was working on in peace, leaving Sally downstairs with her daddy. I knew yelling like that was not right and I knew I should have taken a deep breath instead of getting more and more annoyed. In retrospect, I should have saved finishing my project until later, or else I should have stopped and found Sally something constructive to do. But I didn’t.

After cooling off upstairs for a minute I knew what I needed to do. I went downstairs and found Sally and got down on her level and looked her in the eyes.

Sally, mommy’s sorry mommy yelled at you. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Children, Motherhood, Positive Parenting, Relationships 10 Comments

Raised Quiverfull: Homeschooling, Q. 2

May 22, 2012 By Libby Anne 3 Comments

Raised Quiverfull Introduction — Homeschooling Summary

Please be sure to click the above links to see an introduction to and explanation of this project, which involves a panel of nine young adults who were raised in Quiverfull families and have since questioned and left that ideology answering questions about their experiences.

Briefly describe your experience being homeschooled, including the amount of interaction you had with other homeschoolers or non-homeschoolers (socialization) and what sorts of textbooks or homeschool program your family used (academics). [Read more...]

Filed Under: Curriculum, Education, Homeschool, Indoctrinate, Raised Quiverfull, Sheltering 3 Comments

Worthwhile Reads: The Modesty Myth

May 21, 2012 By Libby Anne 6 Comments

I am encouraged to see more and more bloggers, especially those with personal experience with it, taking on the modesty teachings of the purity culture. A few months ago blogger Sierra wrote a series of posts on the teachings of the modesty doctrine. I have also written on the problems with modesty and the purity culture. Now, just this last week, blogger From Two to One has a five-part series out on modesty. Her first post is an introduction, her next three deal with the six main problems she sees with the purity culture’s modesty teachings, and her last post offers some potential solutions to the problem.

The Modesty Myth: Part I

The Modesty Myth: Part II

The Modesty Myth: Part III

The Modesty Myth: Part IV

The Modesty Myth: Part V

(Thanks to Sierra for the link)

Filed Under: Modesty, Purity, Worthwhile reads 6 Comments

Raised Quiverfull: Homeschooling, Q. 1

May 21, 2012 By Libby Anne 10 Comments

Raised Quiverfull Introduction — Homeschooling Summary

Please be sure to click the above links to see an introduction to and explanation of this project, which involves a panel of nine young adults who were raised in Quiverfull families and have since questioned and left that ideology answering questions about their experiences.

Why and when did your parents originally decide to homeschool? Did their reasons for homeschooling change over time? [Read more...]

Filed Under: Homeschool, Indoctrinate, Sheltering 10 Comments

Documentaries: The Assassination of Dr. Tiller

May 20, 2012 By Libby Anne 13 Comments

In putting together my blog’s tabs, I’ve been trying to incorporate documentaries I’ve found useful or informative or interesting. This one, The Assassination of Dr. Tiller, examines last year’s murder of the prominent abortion doctor, Dr. Tiller, but it also deals with so much more, including the highly problematic and destructive tactics adopted by many in the anti-abortion movement. Sorry I can only offer you the preview!

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Feel free to share your thoughts!

Filed Under: Abortion, Christian Right 13 Comments

Why I Went to a Secular College

May 20, 2012 By Libby Anne 13 Comments

I grew up in family strongly influenced by the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements. I was homeschooled in order to be “sheltered” and “taught God’s truth,” and was taught that my role was to be a homemaker and that I was always to remain under male authority (first father, then husband).

Given this, my readers have asked why I was sent to a secular college, or even to college at all. Since I’ve been asked this multiple times, I thought it only fair to write a post on it. So, here goes. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christian Patriarchy, College, Daughters 13 Comments

Guess What? No Longer Quivering is now on Patheos!

May 19, 2012 By Libby Anne Leave a Comment

No Longer Quivering has now moved to Patheos. Vyckie and her assistant Calulu are still working on getting all the previous material set up and organized, but feel free to head over and take a look at the new site!

Vyckie started the No Longer Quivering website several years ago as a way to begin speaking out against the beliefs and teachings of the Quiverfull movement, and numerous women, whether ex-Quiverfull mothers or ex-Quiverfull daughters, have told their stories there. I actually started blogging by having my own story published on No Longer Quivering, and then deciding that I needed to start a blog of my own (along with the many other Quiverfull daughters who have done the same). No Longer Quivering has also branched out into addressing spiritual abuse in general.

Anyway, if you haven’t read No Longer Quivering before, you should check it out!

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Raised Quiverfull: A Gendered Childhood Complete

May 19, 2012 By Libby Anne Leave a Comment

The Gendered Childhood section of the Raised Quiverfull project is now completed and posted. Next week we’ll move on to the Homeschooling section. In case you missed any of the posts for last week, here are some ways to view them:

For a summary of this section with links to each question, click here.

For the questions and answers for this section on a single page, click here.

 

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