This is NOT Homeschooling: Is HSLDA Part of a “Bible-Based Cult”?

May 15, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Heather Doney This may be the most important and most scary post on homeschooling that I have ever written. It feels like something out of a Margaret Atwood novel and I am numb as I write this, so please bear with me. The title of this post is not rhetorical. It is a question [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: Full Quivers?

May 9, 2013 By 9 Comments
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by Colin Campbell from Meat For Men Nations and churches that willfully refuse to fill their quivers with young men and women, trained as sharp polished arrows, will stand ashamed before their enemies, whether they be physical or spiritual. The sad thing is that God is more than willing to provide us with arrows, but [...]

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Mitt Romney Tells College Students To Fill Their Quivers

May 4, 2013 By 3 Comments

by Calulu Recently failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney showed up in my state to speak to the graduating class of Southern Virginia University.  Turns out that the school near Lynchburg

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Quoting Quiverfull: Simple Test?

May 3, 2013 By 44 Comments
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by Vaughn Ohlman of Persevero News Pornography, contraception, and abortion. The modern church condemns pornography and abortion, yet yawns at contraception, calling it an exercise in wisdom on the part of the couple… and will even rejoice that the fornicating couple

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Quoting Quiverfull: All the Children?

April 29, 2013 By 6 Comments
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by Colin Campbell from Meat For Men “Biblical Fathers Have All The Children God Wants Them To Have” – April 25, 2013 On this point the majority of the Christian churches have been greatly deceived. Most Christian couples have little understanding of the importance of God being in charge of this area of their lives. [...]

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