“Defrauding” or How Men Can Keep Women From Stumbling!

May 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment

by Hopewell – crossposted from her blog Hopewell Takes On LIFE!   source Thanks to TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” America has discovered Bill Gothard’s idea of  “defrauding” or making men “stumble.” How does this happen? If you watch the show you know it’s because someone forgot to call out the code word “Nike” to [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: Combating Pornography?

May 17, 2013 By 9 Comments
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by Vaughn Ohlman of Persevero News So the worldly social reformer is faced with trying to tell the women themselves not to act in demeaning ways. But let’s face it, they aren’t preaching to the choir. Like the issue of gun control it is the very people they want to reach that won’t be listening.

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CTBHHM: Smile, Giggle and Simper

April 5, 2013 By 9 Comments
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by Libby Anne Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 28-32 The rest of Debi’s chapter on “a merry heart” is taken up with her response to a letter from a follower. Debi spends four full pages responding. The longer I read, the sadder I got. I apologize in advance. First, the letter:

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Beauty: In the Eye of the Beholder

April 4, 2013 By 81 Comments
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by Calulu Recently I came across a very disturbing blog posting and another and another and another. It was from a blog that I’d quoted recently on No Longer Quivering for our Quoting Quiverfull feature. The post I used from that blog was one where the blogger’s husband tried to say it was alright for [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: What is Betrothal?

March 22, 2013 By 18 Comments
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by Jonathan Lindvall at Bold Christian Living In the story of Christ s birth we have an interesting illustration of the practice of betrothal. Joseph was deliberating what he should do with Mary, his betrothed wife, having learned

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