Cloistered Fruit (Not) An Open Letter to the Pearls

May 30, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Samantha cross posted from her blog Defeating The Dragons So, a friend of mine sent me this post by Michael and Debi Pearl the other day. I encourage you to go read it, just so that you have some context for the following rant and can follow along.

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Quoting Quiverfull: Explaining Self-Editing?

May 28, 2013 By 7 Comments
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by Tony Reinke from John Piper’s Desiring God – “Those Deleted Tweets” Monday night, in the wake of the devastating tornado in Oklahoma, John Piper posted two tweets at 11:00pm (CST). Both tweets quoted the first chapter of Job.

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Saturday Shock & Sadness: December 15, 2012

December 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
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As you know we usually post a list of news links having to do with fundamentalism, quiverfull, or patriarchal subjects on Saturdays. Not today though. While the events of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut unfolded many of us could not look away from the media

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