News & Links Saturday – November 9, 2012

November 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Most of today’s links have to do with missteps by the Religious Right and the Evangelicals and the election. If you’re sensitive to political talk then please don’t click the links. Most of them are examining why pushing the religious agenda in the Republican party has been a failure.  America soundly rejected the ideas put [...]

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Millipede – Part 34 How Did I Get Here Part 5

November 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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by Millipede The woman traveling the road to Patriarchy has a large pit in front of her. She doesn’t know it, although at this point in the game, she is starting to get little hints of the not so nice side of patriarchy. She’s finding out that she must give up rights, a few here [...]

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Things I Have Learned Not to Fear

November 6, 2012 By 4 Comments
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by Kristen Rosser When I was a young Christian in charismatic evangelicalism (Assemblies of God, followed by Maranatha Campus Ministries), 2 Timothy 2:7 was frequently preached: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and love, and a sound mind.” Other verses emphasized the point: “For ye have not received [...]

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Jeremy Lott, Rachel Held Evans, and Taboos in the Evangelical Christian Culture Industry

November 2, 2012 By 5 Comments

by Sierra In the attempt to track down sales figures for the evangelical Christian marriage book market, I found the following article by Jeremy Lott. He originally wrote it in 2003, but recently reposted it on his blog. The article discusses the range of products that make up the Christian culture market, including books. I [...]

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Crampin’ My Style

October 30, 2012 By 5 Comments
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by Mari A few days after my spiritual epiphany, my three brothers and I received brand new, leather-bound King James Version Bibles for Christmas. On New Years’ Day, we began our annual tradition of reading through the entire Bible in 365 days. We were 11, 9, 7 and 5 years of age. This ritual consisted [...]

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