Quoting Quiverfull: Childish Homeschooler Syndrome Part 1

March 7, 2013 By 5 Comments
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Anna Sophia and Elizabeth Botkin at Visionary Daughters – “Childish Homeschooler Syndrome Part 1″ It’s been exciting to watch the homeschool “movement” grow up. The firstfruits of this effort are adults now, and we have a sizable

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Homeschool or Public School – What’s Worse?

March 6, 2013 By 11 Comments
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by Becoming Worldly I was talking with a homeschooled friend the other day who was raised fairly similar to how I was, with a more structured and less impoverished environment, and we were sharing stories. This and a few other things got me thinking. We both went on to higher education, got our masters degrees. [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: Older Single Women?

March 6, 2013 By 10 Comments
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Jonathan Lindvall of Bold Christian Living Still, Biblically, the parents’ role (and particularly that of a woman’s father) is very significant. I suppose it is theoretically conceivable the Lord would lead a woman to enter a betrothal covenant and marry without her father’s

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Bible Spice & Blame Shifting – Adventures in Recovery

March 3, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Calulu “Tell me what you want, what you really, really want..” – The Spice Girls from their song “Wannabe” One of those many things I’ve come to view differently after leaving Patriarchal Fundamentalism is the tendency of those I was around to blame

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March 2, 2013 By 6 Comments
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by Samantha Betty, Joan and Peggy from the AMC show “Mad Men” (Editors note: Betty Draper Francis is one of the clearest representations of what the old fashioned complimentarism that patriarchal religions push as the only answer.} The first time I ever heard

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