Revisiting Tapati’s Body Image Workshop: Why Body Image Matters

July 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

by Tapati (Editorial note: after all this talk of modesty and body image I felt this is the right time to revisit Tapati”s entire Body Image Workshop. We all need to be reminded we’re beautiful just as we are.) My involvement with the issue of body image came out of my encounter with the size [...]

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NLQ Featured Writer: Bruce Gerencser

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Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network member, Bruce Gerencser blogs at The Way Forward. Bruce Gerencser spent 25 years pastoring Independent Fundamental Baptist, Southern Baptist, and Christian Union churches in Ohio, Michigan, and Texas. Bruce attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan. He is a writer and operates The Way Forward blog. Bruce lives in NW Ohio with his [...]

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Baptist Taliban: Part 5

July 6, 2012 By 7 Comments

by Cindy Foster THE SHUNNING This ‘discipline‘ as it turned out was not discipline at all, but punishment which had the appearance of one acting to satisfy his wrath against those who resisted or opposed him. He actually commanded the whole church to SHUN these young people for varying periods of time from 2 weeks [...]

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