Quoting Quiverfull: Combating Pornography?

May 17, 2013 By 11 Comments
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by Vaughn Ohlman of Persevero News So the worldly social reformer is faced with trying to tell the women themselves not to act in demeaning ways. But let’s face it, they aren’t preaching to the choir. Like the issue of gun control it is the very people they want to reach that won’t be listening.

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Good Baptists Don’t Dance 1971-72

March 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Bruce Gerencser It’s September of  1971 and I am fourteen and a ninth grade student at Central Junior High School in Findlay, Ohio. Seven months later, in April of 1972, my parents divorced, and a  few months after that Mom married her first cousin and Dad married a 19-year-old who had a little girl.

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Shedding The Burqa: Part 1

February 13, 2013 By 8 Comments
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by Cindy Foster It would be the last sermon we would ever endure as members of the Baptist Taliban. We hadn’t planned for it to be, even though by that time, we were painfully aware that our leaving was inevitable. It was just a matter of how and when. My husband already

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Beyonce in the Hands of Jesus Freaks

February 10, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by The Crunk Feminist Collective (Editor’s note: Cross-posted from the CFC site.  Posting it here because it brings up another dangerous theme in Patriarchal Christianity – racism.  Some of the other Patheos bloggers called out their commenters and others on this subtle and not-so-subtle racism that seems to be flourishing in the Fundamentalists, Evangelicals and [...]

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Objects Don’t Have Sex

February 7, 2013 By 19 Comments
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by Sarah Over The Moon I didn’t watch the Superbowl, this year (or…any year) but conversations about Beyoncé’s halftime show caught my eye. On one hand, many felt that Beyoncé’s display of all-women power and sexuality was inspiring

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