Millipede: Part 10

June 22, 2012 By 7 Comments
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by Millipede In face of these events, I found work. Once I overcame my husband’s reluctance to enter the workforce, he seemed to accept the situation. He drove me to pick up applications. He still held to his Patriarchal beliefs, but in light of our situation, he got over issue of my returning to the [...]

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To Stand Up and Speak: The Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blog Network

June 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

by Melissa Permission to Live My sister was the one who introduced me to No Longer Quivering. She didn’t actually mean to, she told me she was reading a website called Quivering Daughters, and when I googled it I found No Longer Quivering instead. I wanted to make sure that this was a good thing [...]

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Pornography and the Fundy

June 19, 2012 By 17 Comments
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by Calulu (Warning, possibly triggering and some of the links are of the not safe for work variety.) Recently I started thinking about pornography. Not that I was partaking it in, it’s never done anything for me. I might as well be looking at a pile of rutabagas or dirty socks. It is what it [...]

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Baptist Taliban: Part 3

June 18, 2012 By 7 Comments

by Cindy Foster THE CHURCH WE WERE The Preacher and his wife graduated from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. At the time he attended there, the college was quite conservative. There were strict rules about dress, dating, curfews, entertainment, music and much more. The Preacher actually grew up in Springfield and was a member [...]

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Who Was That Masked Man? Part 8

June 17, 2012 By 4 Comments

by Calulu Tom comes back to church by late fall and he is in his Mr. Charlie Church mode again, except he doesn’t exactly get with the program. During that summer many of us, myself included, started going off to conferences many weekends, to places like Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship or Life Center to the [...]

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