The Duggar Family Doesn’t Go to the Beach, and Why That’s Bad for Their Kids

July 1, 2012 By 21 Comments

by Sierra This just in from the Department of Unintended Irony: Michelle Duggar makes a public statement about modesty, just to be sure you know how modest they are – too modest for the beach – in case you were straining your neck looking for their modest stairstep children in the crowd while you immodestly sunned [...]

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Post-Fundamentalist Motherhood

June 29, 2012 By 2 Comments
LateBloomer

by Latebloomer When I look at my little toddler, I am so glad that I am no longer a fundamentalist Christian. First, I don’t believe in total depravity anymore, so I don’t feel compelled to interpret his actions with negative terminology. The doctrine of total depravity is a common belief among fundamentalists.  It teaches that [...]

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Baptist Taliban: Part 4

June 28, 2012 By 2 Comments

by Cindy Foster PARTY TIME It was the end of the 1900’s. There was much uncertainty in the air everywhere, about what the next millennium would bring. Would our computer-dependent world come to a screeching halt? Would there be a shortage of food, water and electricity? Should we be stockpiling goods in preparation? If the [...]

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Why Quiverfull Moms Do Not and Cannot Love Their Bodies

June 27, 2012 By 3 Comments

This is a repost from 2009. An excellent piece written by Vyckie  that talks about how many QF moms think about their bodies after years of birthing. Worth revisiting now. Thanks Tapati for the reminder of what a powerful piece this is. by Vyckie I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that [...]

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Who Was That Masked Man: Part 9

June 26, 2012 By 11 Comments

by Calulu High school graduation loomed for Tom’s oldest non-disabled kid, a son that’s as bright as they come. The son has always been in the gifted and talented program at the local schools and was eligible for a few different college scholarships. The problem was that except for the small scholarship money there was [...]

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