Orphan Fever

April 16, 2013 By 17 Comments
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by Calulu Mother Jones magazine has finally published Kathryn Joyce’s account of the Evangelical Movement’s obsession with adoption and the inevitable not so great outcomes when you don’t take practicalities of foreign adoption under consideration.

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Congratulations Samantha! – SASBN

April 10, 2013 By 2 Comments
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Samantha from the blog Defeating The Dragons and NLQ’s SASBN was recently singled out as the subject of  Christianity Today’s article Finding Faith After Spiritual Indoctrination due to the excellence of her blogging about her past experiences! Congratulations and

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An Open Letter to Other Recent Open Letters

April 10, 2013 By 15 Comments
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by Calulu This isn’t quite a mea maxima culpa, but I did want to take some time to talk about the recent posting of two Open Letter posts involving the Hyles family, the Schaap family and the continuing mess at First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana.

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Laughter is Good Medicine: Creationism

April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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From the Doonesbury cartoon strip by Gary Trudeau. Selling Creationism.

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The Voice of Russia: America Edition

March 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Today some of our own NLQ SASBN best were interviewed about their lives and experiences in the Quiverfull Movement for the radio program The Voice of Russia America Edition on the Jamila Bey program. Our own Vyckie Garrison

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