12 Reasons Why My Homeschooling Story Doesn’t Matter

February 14, 2013 By 5 Comments
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by Becoming Worldly Homeschooling parents sometimes react badly to stories like mine. It’s generally the ones who see themselves as fighting an uphill battle with society, surrounded by enemies, feeling personally threatened when any problem

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Quoting Quiverfull: Happy Valentines Day?

February 14, 2013 By 14 Comments
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by Anna Sophia & Elizabeth Botkin from Visionary Daughters -February 13, 2013 Valentine’s Day may be a happy time for couples, but it’s often a painful reminder for single Christian women of what they’re still praying for, hoping for, and – sigh – waiting for. Many of us don’t have a valentine

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Shedding The Burqa: Part 1

February 13, 2013 By 8 Comments
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by Cindy Foster It would be the last sermon we would ever endure as members of the Baptist Taliban. We hadn’t planned for it to be, even though by that time, we were painfully aware that our leaving was inevitable. It was just a matter of how and when. My husband already

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Quoting Quiverfull: Not Wanting Children?

February 13, 2013 By 12 Comments
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Lori Alexander from the blog Always Learning – February 4, 2013 She is young and happy in love.  She loves her job.  If she is unhappy at home, she becomes happy when she goes to work.  Having children frightens her.  She will have to give up

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A Look At Westboro Baptist From A Native Topekan

February 12, 2013 By 2 Comments
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Jezebel.com posted an article about former Westboro Baptist member Lauren Drain posing for a NoH8 photography taken by Adam Houska. What was more interesting than Drain’s story of life in a cult was one of the comments listed below the article, telling of what living in Topeka,

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