Vision Forum & Defending Parental Rights at the Expense of Children

May 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Calulu It seems that HSLDA isn’t the only weapon in the evangelical world against the wicked world supposedly persecuting them. This morning as I was reading through Doug Phillips of Vision Forum’s blog, dodging the pleas for money and the ads for all the crap Vision Forum sells,

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Learning The Words: Introduction and Request For Guest Posts

May 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Samantha During my first two years in college, I had to take courses in musical theory. I sat in a room full of people who had a hard time picking up on things like V-7 chords, borrowing, figured bass, the circle of fifths, chord progressions…

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Bill Gothard has negatively affected my life…Part 1

May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Shadow Spring I started this blog to have a space to write about how patriarchal fundamentalist thought had affected my marriage and resulted in disaster on many levels. The truth is that patriarchal fundamentalist thought had already wreaked havoc on my life before I even met my husband,

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Quoting Quiverfull: Winning Your Father’s Heart?

May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Anna Sophia and Elizabeth Botkin from Visionary Daughters – “Visionary Daughters Interviewed” We see a particular need for girls to build better relationships with their fathers, as the effects of this relationship spill over into so many other areas of their lives — they way they view God, the way they relate to men, [...]

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Heart And Soul: The Womb as a Weapon

May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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This weekend BBC series Heart And Soul did a program on the Quiverfull Movement as it is gaining ground in the United Kingdom, starting out focusing on one particular British Quiverfull family before interviewing Nancy Campbell, our own Vyckie Garrison and Heather Doney of Homeschoolers Anonymous and NLQ.

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