CTBHHM: Be Afraid, Very Afraid

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by Libby Anne Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 57-58 As I’ve been making my way through Debi’s Created To Be His Help Meet, one question I’ve gotten from readers pretty regularly is “why do women buy into this?”

Review: I Fired God: My Life Inside–and Escape from–the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult by Jocelyn Zichterman

I Fired God

by Calulu When I first received this book I chuckled over the title, “I Fired God” because it seemed both humorous and sacrilegious at the same time. Firing God? How is it even possible? I quickly found out that the author should have fired her IFB God much sooner. Before reading “I Fired God” my [...]

CTBHHM: How To Be an Abused Woman

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by Libby Anne Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 54-55 ***trigger warning*** Debi starts this passage by laying out what she calls “God’s Blueprint for Marriage.” She first quotes several verses:

Quoting Quiverfull: Peace?

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by Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies We talked yesterday about deception. Peace is another area where we can be deceived. People often say that have peace about something, but really it is just a RELIEF from their circumstances.

Silencing Techniques

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by Kristen Rosser Have you ever had an entire conversation that was not about the thing you wanted to talk about, but about why you needed to stop talking about it? It’s called silencing.