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May 2012

May 16, 2012
Those who remember my series of posts on the modesty doctrine will appreciate the new "Modesty Myth" series...
May 15, 2012
In the WHAS11 News coverage of William Branham and the Message, they aired a video...
May 14, 2012
I am very impressed with Mr. Wasler's coverage of the Message on WHAS11. It could...
May 14, 2012
A friend just sent me a link to WHAS11 News, a Louisville program airing a...
May 13, 2012
My church was obsessed with Israel. We believed that Israel becoming a state in 1948...
May 12, 2012
I was homeschooled through high school. If I had been able to leave fundamentalism as...
May 09, 2012
Having already covered what I think were the benefits of my homeschool education, now it's...
May 08, 2012
I liked being homeschooled. To this day, I have no problem with it. Nonetheless, I...
May 07, 2012
In my previous two posts, I pointed out the advantages (an orderly house, fresh food,...
May 06, 2012
Recently, someone stumbled upon my blog while googling this question: is the unforgivable sin abortion?...
May 05, 2012
It's not quite breaking news, but I just came across this article in NY Times...
May 04, 2012
As I wrote in my previous post, the stress on the importance of homemaking in...
May 02, 2012
A famous tagline from the film Paradise Recovered, uttered by skeptical hippie Gabriel, goes like...
May 02, 2012
Over the next few weeks, I'm going to address several aspects of evangelical-fundamentalist life that...

April 2012

April 30, 2012
I love doing yard work. Well, not so much yard work as forest-work. I've been clearing...
April 30, 2012
Melissa at Permission to Live has just completed a phenomenal series about her journey with...
April 20, 2012
This video was too good not to share for anybody with experience in Christian purity...
April 11, 2012
Like most fundamentalist churches, mine taught that wives were commanded by God to give their...
April 10, 2012
My last two posts, and indeed all my thinking on the subject has led me...
April 05, 2012
I have already written about the ways that growing up in fundamentalist-evangelical culture made me...
April 04, 2012
Libby Anne has begun a series on Emotional Incest at Love, Joy, Feminism. In her...

March 2012

March 29, 2012
It has been noted that my writing comes from experience and is secular in nature....
March 04, 2012
I am fed up. Truly, deeply fed up. I'm fed up with the arrogance and...

February 2012

February 21, 2012
Fundamentalists argue that women should dress conservatively because men are visual. This is supposedly something...
February 21, 2012
I support women's access to birth control. I use birth control, value it and believe...
February 17, 2012
Growing up fundamentalist, I heard endless tirades about the importance of having a set of...
February 11, 2012
I've written a few times about how the modesty doctrine hurts women. Now it's time...
February 10, 2012
From the Wall Street Journal: Vice President Joe Biden said he is confident the administration...
February 09, 2012
Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of...
February 09, 2012
I recently had a discussion with Libby Anne at Love, Joy Feminism about the logic of...
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