Quoting Quiverfull: Is Maternalness Everything?

December 2, 2012 By 11 Comments

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 to examine

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Thoughts on the “Quiverfull” Movement

December 1, 2012 By 11 Comments
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by Kristen Rosser A grass-roots movement has been growing for the last 20 years among evangelical/fundamentalist Christian families. Using a literalistic approach to the Bible, these families withdraw from modern culture into a strict patriarchal structure where birth control of any kind

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News & Links Saturday December 1st, 2012

December 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Turns out the access to contraception decreases abortion rates – http://chuckcurrie.blogs.com/chuck_currie/2012/11/-contraception-reduces-abortion-rate.html Fox News says that women aren’t women any longer and the war on the sexes is really a war on men – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/26/fox-news-women-suzanne-venker-arent-women-anymore-war-on-men_n_2193234.html  They have since

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Laughter Is Good Medicine: Women’s Bodies

November 30, 2012 By 2 Comments
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Laughter Is Good Medicine is a new feature at NLQ where things humorous pertaining to our journeys out of harmful theologies and situations will be posted as we stumble across them. Humor has a wonderful ability to show the absurdity of life and engage the minds of people.

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Quoting Quiverfull: Parents Choosing Spouses For Adult Children?

November 30, 2012 By 10 Comments

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 to examine the

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