The Purity Conversation – My Two Cents

March 5, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by Kristen Rosser It appears to have started with a blog post called I am Damaged Goods by Sarah Bessey, in which she says: In the face of our sexually-dysfunctional culture, the Church longs to stand as an outpost of God’s ways of love

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Ken Ham Warns Atheists Out to Steal Children and Eat Them Too

March 4, 2013 By 13 Comments
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by Bruce Gerencser Eat them, metaphorically speaking. In a recent blog post,  young earth creationist, and snake oil salesman, Ken Ham wrote: … Christians today are hungry to be equipped with the resources to fight the battle before us in this increasingly secular culture, where God’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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Shedding the Burqa Part 2

March 1, 2013 By 2 Comments
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by Cindy Foster While I waited in the car with the kids, my husband stayed behind and told The Preacher that we would be leaving. This was actually the second time he told him.  The first was the day The Preacher administered ‘The Shunning’

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