Daughter of the Patriarchy: Safe Now

July 8, 2012 By 3 Comments

by Sierra Princesses do NOT eat turkey legs. A month after my acceptance, I was moving onto campus for my first autumn semester at Rowling College.* Most of my community college credits had transferred, leaving me a semester ahead of that year’s incoming freshmen. The same summer, my mother and I had finally filled out [...]

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Raised Quiverfull: Living the Life Part 2

July 7, 2012 By 2 Comments

by Libby Anne Raised Quiverfull Introduction — Questioning Summary Question 3: How often did you, your siblings, and your parents read the Bible? Were you guided by your parents or pastors in how to interpret the Bible, especially certain passages, or were you generally free to form your own ideas about what the Bible said? Joe: [...]

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Revisiting Tapati’s Body Image Workshop: Why Body Image Matters

July 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

by Tapati (Editorial note: after all this talk of modesty and body image I felt this is the right time to revisit Tapati”s entire Body Image Workshop. We all need to be reminded we’re beautiful just as we are.) My involvement with the issue of body image came out of my encounter with the size [...]

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Baptist Taliban: Part 5

July 6, 2012 By 7 Comments

by Cindy Foster THE SHUNNING This ‘discipline‘ as it turned out was not discipline at all, but punishment which had the appearance of one acting to satisfy his wrath against those who resisted or opposed him. He actually commanded the whole church to SHUN these young people for varying periods of time from 2 weeks [...]

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Who Was That Masked Man: Part 10

July 5, 2012 By 3 Comments

by Calulu It seemed like the conferences and teachings were helping Tom even if he was still having his moments of weirdness and dysfunction. And then my darling husband started skipping our church’s Sunday School to attend the early service at a big mainstream denomination before coming for to our church for our service. The [...]

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