Sunday Challenge – How Has Your Self Body Image Changed?

March 24, 2013 By 3 Comments
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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

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SASBN: Putting an End to the Survivor Wars

March 18, 2013 By 4 Comments
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by Vyckie Garrison Breaking free from the absolute control of a cultic group is incredibly hard – it’s a soul-wrenching experience and in all honesty, none of us walk away unscathed and completely healthy. Spiritual abuse survivors are hurt, traumatized, damaged and often broken. I wish I

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Raised Quiverfull: Homeschooling

January 25, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Libby Anne Question 1: Why and when did your parents originally decide to homeschool? Did their reasons for homeschooling change over time? Joe: My family knew nothing about homeschooling until we met the esteemed, Bill Gothard.  Then, when

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Raised Quiverfull: Introductory Questions

June 2, 2012 By 3 Comments

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 [...]

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Unwrapping the Onion: Part 9: Starting a New Life

May 21, 2012 By 7 Comments

by Permission to Live This post is the final post in a series. Please click here to start with the series Introduction. It’s the spring of 2012 now, and we’ve moved to a new home in a new city and are making new friends and starting over. We’ve officially left the ministry and are making [...]

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