News & Links Saturday – November 9, 2012

Most of today’s links have to do with missteps by the Religious Right and the Evangelicals and the election. If you’re sensitive to political talk then please don’t click the links. Most of them are examining why pushing the religious agenda in the Republican party has been a failure.  America soundly rejected the ideas put [...]

The Parenting Project – Teen Years

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The next set of questions for the Parenting Project has to do with how you were parented as a teenager and how that affected your future parenting. 1. Did the type of parenting or discipline change as you moved into your teenage years? 2. Were you rebellious as a teen? How did your parents react [...]

Millipede – Part 34 How Did I Get Here Part 5

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by Millipede The woman traveling the road to Patriarchy has a large pit in front of her. She doesn’t know it, although at this point in the game, she is starting to get little hints of the not so nice side of patriarchy. She’s finding out that she must give up rights, a few here [...]

I Voted! (Suck it, Mr. Branham.)

by Sierra I voted. Deal with it. Growing up fundamentalist, I was reminded on a near monthly basis that I shouldn’t be allowed to vote. It was inescapable. Central to the Message of the Hour theology was a set of seven prophecies by William Branham that were supposed to usher in the end of the [...]

Things I Have Learned Not to Fear

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by Kristen Rosser When I was a young Christian in charismatic evangelicalism (Assemblies of God, followed by Maranatha Campus Ministries), 2 Timothy 2:7 was frequently preached: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and love, and a sound mind.” Other verses emphasized the point: “For ye have not received [...]