Millipede: Part 14

July 21, 2012 By 6 Comments
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by Millipede There in some ways like that of the old church, but with a new twist all elders had to live within a certain distance of the town in which the new church was located. I think that it was 20 miles or something. It was along the lines of the members being close [...]

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Who Was That Masked Man Part 12

July 17, 2012 By 5 Comments

by Calulu I think I cried off and on for a solid eighteen months after we switched churches. It was difficult. What made it even worse was the fact that Tom Smith had apparently told everyone in the Del/Mar/Va area that a) we weren’t believers any longer, b) we went to a church of homosexual [...]

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Millipede: Part 12

July 9, 2012 By 7 Comments
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by Millipede In truth, our Pastor was going through a period of soul searching. In the years that we first met him, certain issues had driven him into the Patriot movement which in turn had exposed him to different variants of Christianity. Now, not quite a decade later, his experiences had found him wanting. He [...]

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Raised Quiverfull: Living the Life Part 2

July 7, 2012 By 2 Comments

by Libby Anne Raised Quiverfull Introduction — Questioning Summary Question 3: How often did you, your siblings, and your parents read the Bible? Were you guided by your parents or pastors in how to interpret the Bible, especially certain passages, or were you generally free to form your own ideas about what the Bible said? Joe: [...]

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Baptist Taliban: Part 5

July 6, 2012 By 7 Comments

by Cindy Foster THE SHUNNING This ‘discipline‘ as it turned out was not discipline at all, but punishment which had the appearance of one acting to satisfy his wrath against those who resisted or opposed him. He actually commanded the whole church to SHUN these young people for varying periods of time from 2 weeks [...]

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