Quoting Quiverfull: Polygamy & Christianity?

February 12, 2013 By 35 Comments
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RedLegBen on his wife’s blog Sarah’s Daughter – January 17, 2013 Men value loyalty. If a wife is loyal, a man will put up with a lot of crap. I have seen men put up with women putting on weight that equals the newer economy cars but remain with their wife because they are loyal.  [...]

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My Wish-I-Hadn’ts

February 6, 2013 By 8 Comments
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by Kristen Rosser I have, over the course of years that I’ve been a Christian, changed the way I think about a large number of things.  Some of the beliefs I used to hold caused me to treat people (or even myself) in ways that I’m sure now were not what Jesus wanted.  Though I’m [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: Dare to be Different?

February 1, 2013 By 4 Comments
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Colin Campbell Meat for Men at Above Rubies January 29, 2013 The “box” represents the ways of human wisdom. People who think outside the box have taken time to think wisely about what is in the box. If what’s in the box takes us away from the time-tested

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The Gender Issue

January 30, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by Wendy Leifeld (Editor’s note: The link for this article came into my email box (thanks Frank!)  and while it was written & originally published back in 1992 it illustrates the same struggles over gender roles occurring in churches and in

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Quoting Quiverfull: True Love?

January 29, 2013 By 17 Comments
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Josh Harris from his book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” “‎True love isn’t expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed

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