But Bruce, Don’t Women CHOOSE to Stay in Fundamentalism?

May 17, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by Bruce Gerencser It’s not that simple. We all tend to think it is just a matter of choice or an act of the will when we see people enmeshed in Fundamentalist religions or bizarre ideologies that we have no personal experience with.

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The Supposed Myth of Teenaged Adolescence

May 16, 2013 By 2 Comments
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by Samantha I’ve talked a lot about the fundamentalist cult I was raised in, but something I don’t very frequently talk about here is my experience with the conservative religious homeschooling movement. For many people, the conservative religious homeschooling movement

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Adoptees: Human and Animal

May 12, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by Calulu A few weekends ago Vyckie forwarded to me a link from Mother Jones magazine involving a book written by Kathryn Joyce. Her new book is about the adopt craze among the evangelical churches and is titled “The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption”

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Introducing Homeschooling’s Invisible Children

May 10, 2013 By 2 Comments
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by Heather Doney Today I am proud to unveil a collaborative project called Homeschooling’s Invisible Children (HIC). It is a website that collects horrific abuse and neglect cases, including deaths, of children who were homeschooled or whose parents claimed to be homeschooling them.

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Silencing Techniques

May 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Kristen Rosser Have you ever had an entire conversation that was not about the thing you wanted to talk about, but about why you needed to stop talking about it? It’s called silencing.

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