Jinger Duggar Wants Out?

May 3, 2013 By 8 Comments
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Radar Online has been having a long series of Duggar related articles through the years. They posted again about Jinger Duggar’s desire to be in the big city and put up a clip of the Duggar girls speculating on what type of men they would want as husbands. Sounds like they’ve been reading Debi Pearl’s [...]

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Daughter of the Patriarchy: epilogue: What does leaving fundamentalism look like?

May 2, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Sierra Occasionally, I get asked whether or not I ever actually left my old fundamentalist church. My story on No Longer Quivering followed my journey up to the first year of college. I’ve wrestled with how to explain what happened in a proper narrative form, because the circumstances that led to my cutting ties [...]

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Created To Be His Slave

May 2, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Bruce Gerencser’s guest Ian On the No Longer Quivering blog, I have been enthralled read to read the female view of Created To Be His Helpmeet (CTBHH), by Debi Pearl. For any that don’t know what this book is, it is a manual for women to learn how to become totally dependent

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Seeing Monsters in the Dark

April 26, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Becoming Worldly   I read this, this, and this recently, so figured today I’d tell a ghost story, one with a bit of fire and brimstone thrown in, and a surprise ending.   One night a little girl goes to bed. She falls asleep in a dress she’s worn for three days, sharing a [...]

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Now What?

April 21, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Mari I voted for the first time in the year 2000. Three months later, I got a jury summons. Uck. The cool thing about it was that it paid $25 per day,

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