Corporal Punishment and The End of The Red Stick

February 19, 2013 By 9 Comments
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by Becoming Worldly This picture could be anybody’s little sister blindfolded and hitting a piñata at her Dad’s house for another sibling’s birthday. But it isn’t. It’s my little sister. She lives in a different world than I did. One with her own bedroom and court-ordered visitation and Christmas presents from a kind stepmother. She [...]

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Christian Advice For Brides in Training?

February 18, 2013 By 26 Comments
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by Calulu Lately I’ve been running into a number of Funda-Gelical blogs dedicated to either training brides what to do once they marry or advising them on what a proper Christian lady does to prepare for her future marriage. Some of the advice is

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Happy is the Man That Has His Quiver Full of Them

February 18, 2013 By 17 Comments
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by Bruce Gerencser When Polly and I married in 1978, we planned to have three children.  We wanted to wait a year or so before we started having children, but six-weeks into marriage Polly became pregnant. Our son Jason was seven weeks before our first wedding anniversary. In 1981, Nathan

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Quoting Quiverfull: Return to Biblical Doctrine

February 18, 2013 By 5 Comments
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by R.J. Rushdooney at Ladies Against Feminism The tragedy of the women’s rights movement was that, although it had serious wrongs to correct, it added to the problem, and here the resistance of man was in as large a measure responsible. Instead of restoring

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Quoting Quiverfull: Risking What?

February 17, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Gary Knapp on the Joe Bayly Blog – February 15, 2013 I must confess that I am a little confused… For years in the abortion debate we have been told that abortion must be available to protect the life of the pregnant woman. It would seem that staying alive has been very important to [...]

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