The Burqa Experience: Getting Groceries

February 11, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Calulu January 13th, 2013 – Culpeper, Virginia Today I decided to venture out to my local favorite grocery store wearing a hijab. I’ve not gotten brave enough to wear one of my abayas along with a hijab, niqab or burqa yet. Based on the reaction

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Quoting Quiverfull: Friendships Like Water?

February 11, 2013 By 6 Comments
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Darlene Schacht at Time-Warp Wife – April 17, 2013 Nothing holds the power to negatively influence our faith more than the people we are close to. Friends can lift you up, while others drag you down faster than you ever thought possible. But when

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Beyonce in the Hands of Jesus Freaks

February 10, 2013 By 3 Comments
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by The Crunk Feminist Collective (Editor’s note: Cross-posted from the CFC site.  Posting it here because it brings up another dangerous theme in Patriarchal Christianity – racism.  Some of the other Patheos bloggers called out their commenters and others on this subtle and not-so-subtle racism that seems to be flourishing in the Fundamentalists, Evangelicals and [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: Give To Receive?

February 10, 2013 By 10 Comments
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Kelly Crawford from Generation Cedar – February 7, 2013 I have lived through turbulent economic crises, we have been the scorn of those wondering why we would be so “irresponsible” to have children on such a tight budget, we have been to the desperate

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Two Simple Statements

February 9, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Samantha By the time I was a sophomore at an extremely conservative Christian college, I had gone through twelve years at an IFB church and been manipulated and bullied by quiverful and patriarchal teachings. My family had been excommunicated from the church, and friends I had

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