Why I Find Perverse Pleasure in the Sexual Peccadilloes of Evangelical Leaders

October 20, 2012 By 10 Comments

by Bruce Gerencser I am quite indifferent to the sexual peccadillos of others. What consenting adults do sexually is none of my business. I think so-called sexual “sins” like adultery and fornication find their foundation in the Bible and I reject the Bible as a moral or ethical standard. We are sexual creatures. Desiring to [...]

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Evangelical Christian Marriage: Hawking the Product

October 18, 2012 By 9 Comments

by Sierra In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals or cheat sheets for the SATs. The sales pitch for marriage in Christian culture is more intense than any you’ll ever experience on a used car lot. Christians are made to believe that they’re God’s designated curators of [...]

Filed Under: A Woman's Choice, Above Rubies (Nancy Campbell), Accountability, Advance Training Institute (ATI) / Institution for Basic Life Principles (IBLP) (Bill Gothard), American Family Association (Don Wildmon), Beautiful Girlhood, Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, Birth Control, Bold Christian Living (Jonathan Lindvall), Botkin Syndrome, Boundaries, Bounded Choice, Calling Husband "Lord", Christian Modesty, Christian Moms of Many Blessings, Complimentarianism, Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood (John Piper), Courtship / Betrothal, Created To Be His Help Meet by Debi Pearl, Daughter of the Patriarchy by Sierra, Dominionism / Christian Reconstruction, Elitism, Emotional Purity, Family Reformation Magazine (James & Stacy McDonald), Father Worship, Fear Based Theology, Fear tactics, Focus On The Family (James Dobson / Jim Daly), Formulaic Religion, Fruit of the Spirit, Fundamentalism, Gender Equality, Group Think, Help Meet, Homemaking Skills, How Did I Get In This Mess?, Hupotasso, Husbands Love Your Wives, Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches (IFB), Isolation, Issues, J.O.Y (Self Denial), Judgementalism, Learned Helplessness, Legalism, Life Stories, List of Qualities for Future Spouse, Maintaining Appearances, Male Headship, Manipulation, Markers of a Cult, Marketing "Biblical Family Values", Marriage Covenant, Meek and Quiet Spirit, Mega-Families, Men are Visual, Mental / Emotional Health, Motherhood, Mr. Command Man, Must Read! ~ NLQ Readers Choice ..., Mutuality, Natural Family Planning, NLQ Miscellany, NLQ Open Comments, NLQ Stories, No Greater Joy (Michael & Debi Pearl), Patriarchy, Perfectionism, Personal Autonomy, Pro-Life, Proverbs 31 Woman, Psalm 127 / Quiverfull: Be Fruitful & Multiply, Purity, Quiverfull & the Bible, Quiverfull Discernment, Quiverfull Ministries, Quiverfull Topics, SASBN, Self-Abnegation / Martydom, Self-Righteousness, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual Abuse & Recovery, Spiritual Abuse Survivors, Spiritual Issues, Stay At Home Daughters (SAHDs), Submission, The Godly Woman, The Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network, Titus 2 Woman, True Love Waits, Umbrella of Authority, Vision Forum (Doug Phillips), Visionary Daughters (Anna Sophia & Elizabeth Botkin), Weaker Vessel Tagged With: , , , , 9 Comments

Millipede Part 31 – How Did I Get Here Part 2

October 16, 2012 By 5 Comments
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by Millipede The path to Patriarchy is often a convoluted one. Embracing of Patriarchal beliefs is usually not the original intent, but is often the “byproduct” of one’s attempt to embrace a particular religion and/ or ideology. This is important to remember, few women are quick to jump on a bandwagon which promotes a society [...]

Filed Under: A Woman's Choice, Accountability, Alienation, Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, Botkin Syndrome, Boundaries, Bounded Choice, Coercive Religious Groups (Cults), Complimentarianism, Control, Covenant Breaking, Divorce & Remarriage, Dominionism / Christian Reconstruction, Drinking the Koolaid, Elitism, Father Worship, Fear Based Theology, Fear of Hell, Formulaic Religion, Fruit of the Spirit, Fundamentalism, Gender Equality, Group Think, Help Meet, How Did I Get In This Mess?, Isolation, Issues, J.O.Y (Self Denial), Judgementalism, Learned Helplessness, Legalism, Life Stories, Maintaining Appearances, Manipulation, Markers of a Cult, Meek and Quiet Spirit, Mental / Emotional Health, Millipede, Mutuality, NLQ Miscellany, NLQ Open Comments, NLQ Stories, Patriarchy, Perfectionism, Personal Autonomy, Proverbs 31 Woman, Quiverfull & the Bible, Quiverfull Discernment, Quiverfull Topics, Self-Abnegation / Martydom, Self-Righteousness, Separation - Individuation, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual Abuse Survivors, Spiritual Issues, Submission, The Godly Woman, Titus 2 Woman, Umbrella of Authority, Weaker Vessel Tagged With: , , , 5 Comments

Crime and Punishment

October 15, 2012 By 12 Comments
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by Mari I’ve been procrastinating about telling this part of the story. In the previous chapter of the story, I talked about having nightmares about death. That story was the whitewashed version. I’m not saying that what was written isn’t true. It is. But for me, the experience was a lot worse than it probably [...]

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Jack Schaap: Isolated Incident or the One That Got Caught?

October 13, 2012 By 41 Comments
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by Calulu I haven’t updated NLQ much with the latest on Jack Schaap and his ongoing legal confloption. Yesterday I was perusing the news on Jack Schaap, the former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana to see what had gone down on his plea arraignment on September 27, 2012. Schaap not only [...]

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