Adoptees: Human and Animal

May 12, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by Calulu A few weekends ago Vyckie forwarded to me a link from Mother Jones magazine involving a book written by Kathryn Joyce. Her new book is about the adopt craze among the evangelical churches and is titled “The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption”

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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
I Fired God

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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Quoting Quiverfull: Executing Wrath?

May 8, 2013 By 5 Comments
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Bart Janz, Independent Fundamentalist Baptist minister. From his sermon, “God and Government II,” Holly Ridge Baptist Church, 2006 “My job [as pastor] is to execute wrath upon

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Mitt Romney Tells College Students To Fill Their Quivers

May 4, 2013 By 3 Comments

by Calulu Recently failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney showed up in my state to speak to the graduating class of Southern Virginia University.  Turns out that the school near Lynchburg

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Quoting Quiverfull: God’s Army

April 24, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Nancy Campbell from the book “I Fired God” by Jocelyn R. Zichterman and the Above Rubies website. God is looking for an Army. The greatest threat to Satan in this world is godly parents that understand God’s intentions and will bring forth and train a Godly

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