Sunday Challenge – How Has Your Self Body Image Changed?

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Introducing the NLQ Sunday Challenge! What it’s all about is you, you writing in and sharing your take on the topic picked for the week, sharing your hard earned wisdom with others. Just write up as little or as much as you feel like saying on that subject, email it to

Revisiting Tapati’s Body Image Workshop: Day One Assignment

by Tapati Find some images online, in card shops, in books or magazines, or elsewhere of women (or men) whose body type resembles your own. It’s OK if this project takes more than one day, but spend at least 15 minutes per day on it until you have assembled several images. You might color-copy or [...]

Revisiting Tapati’s Body Image Workshop: Why Body Image Matters

by Tapati (Editorial note: after all this talk of modesty and body image I felt this is the right time to revisit Tapati”s entire Body Image Workshop. We all need to be reminded we’re beautiful just as we are.) My involvement with the issue of body image came out of my encounter with the size [...]

Why Quiverfull Moms Do Not and Cannot Love Their Bodies

This is a repost from 2009. An excellent piece written by Vyckie  that talks about how many QF moms think about their bodies after years of birthing. Worth revisiting now. Thanks Tapati for the reminder of what a powerful piece this is. by Vyckie I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that [...]

Raised Quiverfull: Introductory Questions

by Libby Anne Welcome to Raised Quiverfull! Nine young adults who grew up in the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements have come together to answer a series of questions about their experiences. All of these young adults have since questioned and left these ideologies and have chosen their own life paths. The goal of the [...]