Seeing Monsters in the Dark

April 26, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Becoming Worldly   I read this, this, and this recently, so figured today I’d tell a ghost story, one with a bit of fire and brimstone thrown in, and a surprise ending.   One night a little girl goes to bed. She falls asleep in a dress she’s worn for three days, sharing a [...]

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Was I Spiritually Abused?

January 31, 2013 By 1 Comment
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by Becoming Worldly (Welcome to NLQ new SASBN member Becoming Worldly!) I was just asked if I could add my blog to No Longer Quivering, a site for people who have left and are speaking out against the Quiverfull movement and people who are interested in learning about such things. My blog will now be [...]

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Westboro Baptist Church comment on No Longer Quivering: Judge who sentenced child abuser “clearly wasn’t spanked enough as a child”

June 14, 2012 By 7 Comments
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by Vyckie Garrison I just came across this graphic on Facebook. We recently had someone from Westboro Baptist Church post a hate-filled, bible-thumping comment on No Longer Quivering – guess we must be doing something right to have attracted WBC’s attention. (◕‿◕✿) Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi sentenced Pastor Philip Caminiti to 2 years in [...]

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Who Was That Masked Man? Part 7

June 9, 2012 By 7 Comments

by Calulu After the incident with the pregnant daughter of a friend we had another reprieve from Tom and Tina. We’d see them at church but they’d stopped coming to the bible study group. I’d heard that they were both going through this other ministry’s counseling. The other ministry sounded sort of like Scientology in [...]

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Justice is No Lady: Chapter 11: Jack, the One I Lost

June 6, 2012 By 16 Comments
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by Tess Willoughby When Jack was just a baby, Nate had rejected Jack’s personality, and had set out to beat and berate it out of him. When Jack reached middle school age, or perhaps a little bit before, the seeds that his father had planted suddenly sprouted. Jack began to come unraveled. “Something is wrong [...]

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