News & Links Saturday – November 3, 2012

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Instead of  putting it on random Thursdays the links and news items are moving to Saturday. We’ll also be featuring  some of our Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network members blog postings as well each week. Interesting week with the election happening in mere days and the sad aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. May the East Coast

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

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 [...]

The Parenting Project: Childhood Part 1

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Here’s the next set of questions for the Parenting Project. They deal with the type of parenting you received from your own parents and while you were at school. I hope you’re consider joining this project and sharing what you know about parenting. Again, only answer as much as you feel comfortable doing. I know [...]

Rethinking Birth Control & Abortion

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by Calulu A few days ago our Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network member Libby Anne of Love, Joy, Feminism wrote a compelling post called ‘How I Lost Faith in the “Pro Life” Movement‘. She laid out how she’d gone from a staunch member of the Pro Life movement to a Progressive Pro Choice position over [...]

Crampin’ My Style

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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 [...]