{"id":21199,"date":"2014-04-14T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=21199"},"modified":"2014-04-14T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:40:25","slug":"worthwhile-reads-an-eclectic-assortment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2014\/04\/worthwhile-reads-an-eclectic-assortment.html","title":{"rendered":"Worthwhile Reads: An Eclectic Assortment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

My time has been tight lately, which has cut into the time I spend reading other blogs. From time to time I try to peruse what I\u2019ve missed, and this morning I noticed a number of posts on Homeschoolers Anonymous that I felt I should share.<\/p>\n

Make sure to click through!<\/p>\n

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Part of \u201cThat\u201d World<\/a>, by Abigail<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Look at this stuff
\nIsn\u2019t it neat?
\nWouldn\u2019t you think my life\u2019s purpose complete?
\nWouldn\u2019t you think I\u2019m the girl
\nThe girl who has everything?<\/p>\n

Look at this shelf
\nTreasures untold
\nHow many Christian books can one bookshelf hold?
\nLooking around here you think
\nSure, she\u2019s got everything<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got Bibles and siblings a plenty
\nI\u2019ve got homework and housework galore
\nYou want jean skirts? I\u2019ve got twenty!
\nBut who cares?
\nNo big deal
\nI want more<\/p>\n

Read the rest<\/a>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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When Homeschooling Gets Crunchy<\/a>, by Darcy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So I\u2019m a bit of a hippie.<\/p>\n

I believe the popular term nowadays is \u201ccrunchy.\u201d I\u2019m a huge supporter of Attachment Parenting, I birthed my babies at home, breastfeed toddlers, harvest my own herbs, make my own house-hold cleaners, have lived off-grid, can milk a goat\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0make kefir out of the fresh milk. I don\u2019t eat placentas, though. I have standards.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a non-conformist, even among the non-conformist community.<\/p>\n

I follow a lot of hippie\/crunchy pages and blogs. I have many friends that live this lifestyle, including a great local Attachment Parenting group where I\u2019ve enjoyed hanging out with other parents similar to me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m seeing a movement, a push maybe, toward homeschooling and \u201cunschooling\u201d that is making me feel unsettled.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the rest<\/a>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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50 Shades of Grey or Contemporary Christian Music Lyrics: A Quiz<\/a>, by R.L. Stollar<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Growing up evangelical, I listened to a lot of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). I never understood the whole \u201crock music causes demons to eat your brain\u201d mentality. But I did understand \u2014 to some extent \u2014 their point that Christian rock music was just normal rock music with \u201cJesus\u201d pasted on top. To my friends and I, that wasn\u2019t actually an intelligent critique. It was more a\u00a0joke<\/em>, something we all laughed about.<\/p>\n

Fact is, my peers and I often thought it\u00a0was<\/em>\u00a0funny that many CCM songs appeared to be sexy romance songs where the \u201cyou\u201d was just capitalized so it suddenly was about Jesus rather than a hot piece of man-flesh. And some CCM bands \u2014 Skillet, most of all \u2014 have lyrics that are so spiritually kinky, even actual kinksters might blush.<\/p>\n

So to honor this humorous memory of CCM\u2019s steamy lyricism, I decided to create a quiz where you must identify whether certain phrases are lines from the bestselling erotic BDSM novel\u00a050 Shades of Grey<\/em>\u00a0by E.L. James or lyrics from Contemporary Christian Music songs. So pull out a pen and paper and keep track of your answers; an answer key is provided after the quiz.<\/p>\n

Make sure you don\u2019t cheat. God is watching you. As Phil Joel says about God, \u201cHe\u2019s gonna keep the night light on. He\u2019s waiting there to receive you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or was that something Anastasia Steele wrote in her diary about Christian Grey?<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Read the rest<\/a>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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