Bill Gothard has negatively affected my life: Part 2

May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Shadow Spring My twin sister flopped down on her bed, a dreamy look on her face. She was clutching a beautiful down parka to her chest, hugging it like a teddy bear. I sat tentatively on the edge of the bed, swinging my feet that were snugly encased in my new leather boots

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Quoting Quiverfull: Who is to Blame For Tornadoes?

May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Today is a random list of various ministries and others laying the blame for the recent Oklahoma tornadoes to all sorts of things. Pat Robertson of “The 700 Club”

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Quoting Quiverfull: Winning Your Father’s Heart?

May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Anna Sophia and Elizabeth Botkin from Visionary Daughters – “Visionary Daughters Interviewed” We see a particular need for girls to build better relationships with their fathers, as the effects of this relationship spill over into so many other areas of their lives — they way they view God, the way they relate to men, [...]

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Heart And Soul: The Womb as a Weapon

May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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This weekend BBC series Heart And Soul did a program on the Quiverfull Movement as it is gaining ground in the United Kingdom, starting out focusing on one particular British Quiverfull family before interviewing Nancy Campbell, our own Vyckie Garrison and Heather Doney of Homeschoolers Anonymous and NLQ.

Filed Under: A Woman's Choice, Above Rubies (Nancy Campbell), Accountability, Announcements, Be Fruitful & Multiply / God's Vision for Families by Nancy Campbell, Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, Birth Control, Birth control, Bounded Choice, Christian Culture War, Complimentarianism, Confession, Control, Controlling Emotions & being cheerful always, Dangerous People, Demonic Influences, Dominionism / Christian Reconstruction, Elitism, Father Worship, Fear Based Theology, Fear of Hell, Formulaic Religion, Fruit of the Spirit, Fundamentalism, Gender Equality, Godly Seed, Group Think, Hot Topics, Isolation, Issues, Judgementalism, Learned Helplessness, Legalism, Life Stories, Maintaining Appearances, Manipulation, Markers of a Cult, Marketing "Biblical Family Values", Maternal Martyr, Media Updates, Mega-Families, Mental / Emotional Health, Militant Fecundity, More from NLQ ..., Motherhood, Must Read! ~ NLQ Readers Choice ..., Mutuality, Nancy Campbell, Natural Family Planning, NLQ Miscellany, NLQ Open Comments, Other Religions, Perfectionism, Personal Autonomy, Pro-Life, Proverbs 31 Woman, Psalm 127 / Quiverfull: Be Fruitful & Multiply, Quiverfull, Quiverfull & the Bible, Quiverfull Books, Quiverfull Counterculture, Quiverfull Discernment, Quiverfull in the News, Quiverfull Leaders, Quiverfull Ministries, Quiverfull Resources, Quiverfull Topics, Racism / White Supremacy, Religious Trauma Syndrome, Select Entries, Self-Abnegation / Martydom, Self-Righteousness, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual Abuse Survivors, Spiritual Issues, Submission, Vyckie's Posts Tagged With: , , , , Leave a Comment

Domestic Violence in the IFB Church Movement

May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Bruce Gerencser First, let me give readers the definition for domestic violence. The National Domestic Violence Hotline defines domestic violence as: Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner.

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