Saturday Shock & Sadness: December 15, 2012

December 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
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As you know we usually post a list of news links having to do with fundamentalism, quiverfull, or patriarchal subjects on Saturdays. Not today though. While the events of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut unfolded many of us could not look away from the media

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Quoting Quiverfull: Will you STAND?

December 15, 2012 By 1 Comment
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QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers

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Characters

December 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
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by Mari Donald Miller, in “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” says that when you write a story, even though you hold the pen, the character does what it wants. It’s true. I once wrote a story for a fiction workshop about

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Quoting Quiverfull: Unsavory Salt?

December 14, 2012 By 14 Comments
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QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers

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Emotional Control: Mandatory Happiness Makes Me Sad

December 13, 2012 By 8 Comments
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by Sierra I recently joined Pinterest. I resisted for a little while, like I always do, but eventually decided that it would be a convenient way to store ideas for home decorating (I just moved house) and wedding planning (for next fall). The result was my sudden

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