Mama’s Choice – Part 4: Buying It Wholesale

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by Vyckie Garrison Shortly after recognizing the spiritually abusive nature of the Quiverfull movement, I wrote: I’ve had a sick feeling in my stomach lately.  It’s the feeling that comes along with a growing realization that the Quiverfull worldview and lifestyle which I felt that I had carefully considered and thoughtfully adopted is, in actuality, [...]

Mama’s Choice – Part 3: Ultimatum

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by Vyckie Garrison While we’re on the topic of Choice – although I’ve written about this before, I must say it again: what choices do devoted Christian women really have? “If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.” “What is most important?” Nancy Campbell asks Christian women.  ”When we refuse [...]

Toddlerhood: Part 1

by Mari Davie Somewhere between my first and second birthdays, I got hair. Like, actual hair. I sported that reddish fuzz for roughly 19 months. Then, all of a sudden, I had two little boy cousins, another brother and…. hair. Soft, blonde, wavy hair. But my hair isn’t that important in this chapter. Let’s talk [...]

Mama’s Choice – Part 2: Spirit Led, or Alien Impregnation?

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by Vyckie Garrison When Michelle Duggar got pregnant despite being on birth control, and subsequently lost the baby, the belief that – by using hormonal birth control – she had destroyed the precious life of their unborn child led Michelle and her husband, Jim Bob, to search the scriptures and pray. The result was a [...]

Why the “Taliban” Title?

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by Cindy Foster (Baptist Taliban) I was strolling down the aisles at Sam’s Wholesale Club one day about a year or so after leaving the church, and in the book aisle I noticed a book written by a woman from Afghanistan.  It was obvious from the cover that she was Muslim.  I picked it up [...]