This is NOT Homeschooling: Is HSLDA Part of a “Bible-Based Cult”?

May 15, 2013 By 9 Comments
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by Heather Doney This may be the most important and most scary post on homeschooling that I have ever written. It feels like something out of a Margaret Atwood novel and I am numb as I write this, so please bear with me. The title of this post is not rhetorical. It is a question [...]

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CTBHHM In Which Debi Reveals Her Mandate

April 28, 2013 By 8 Comments
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by Libby Anne Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 51-53  Remember that Debi has just poisoned the well against trusting one’s feelings, listening to mainstream society, or giving a hearing to the arguments of Christian feminists. She continues with this: Can we, ordinary housewives and mothers, jump into the arena and compete with these [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: The Way It Is?

March 29, 2013 By 15 Comments
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From Pat Robertson of CBN and The 700 Club “I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the

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Quoting Quiverfull: Manipulate or Instruct?

March 5, 2013 By 7 Comments
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by Jay Younts at Shepherds Press – February 28, 2013 All’s well that ends well is one of those proverbial threads that form the tapestry of conventional wisdom.  In this case the tapestry is threadbare in spots. This thought leads to the idea

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Quoting Quiverfull: Sleeping?

March 3, 2013 By 10 Comments

by Nancy Campbell at Above Rubies – February 28, 2013 Tonight I was visiting with my daughter Evangeline. I read some Facebook posts she answered to mothers complaining that they don’t get enough sleep. Isn’t that a constant complaint

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