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

May 15, 2013 By 9 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: True Love Waits is Satanic?

May 15, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Vaughn Ohlman from Perservero News A friend passed me on a link to an incredibly popular post on marriage… knowing that I write on such things. And I read it, and wanted to cry (It’s Ok. I didn’t actually cry.

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

May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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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 [...]

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Orphan Fever

April 16, 2013 By 17 Comments
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by Calulu Mother Jones magazine has finally published Kathryn Joyce’s account of the Evangelical Movement’s obsession with adoption and the inevitable not so great outcomes when you don’t take practicalities of foreign adoption under consideration.

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Quoting Quiverfull: Significant Financial Contribution?

April 6, 2013 By 4 Comments
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From the Prairie Muffin Manifesto Prairie Muffins make significant economic contributions to their households in many ways. They are careful with the hard-earned money that their husbands bring home, wisely weighing expenditures to ensure that they stretch

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