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April 2012

April 11, 2012

Worthwhile Reads: Monumental and Titanic

First, Julie Ingersoll examines What Kirk Cameron's Monumental Reveals about the Subtle Influence of Reconstructionism....

April 03, 2012

Emotional Incest, Part 2: The Botkins

In Part 1 I discussed the definition of emotional incest. Today I will look at teachings of leading...

March 2012

March 27, 2012

Christian Reconstructionism, Gays, and Stoning

I recently read a New York Times piece about the vigilante killing of gays in...

March 21, 2012

Vision Forum, the Titanic, and “Honor and Protection”

Doug Phillips of Vision Forum has just announced details for a celebration of the 100th...

March 18, 2012

“Teach Them Diligently”

This weekend is the "Teach Them Diligently Convention" in Spartansburg, South Carolina. According to the...

March 09, 2012

Kirk Cameron supports female slavery

I keep seeing calls for Kirk Cameron to take back his homophobic comments, and articles...

March 08, 2012

Kirk Cameron’s Insidious Christian Patriarchy Connections

Kirk Cameron was recently asked on CNN Piers Morgan Tonight about his views on gay...

March 04, 2012

When youth group is “contrary to scripture”

A reader recently asked in a comment if I would write about my experiences with...

March 01, 2012

Doug Phillips on the Threat of Population Decline

I recently ran across an article on Vision Forum president Doug Phillips' blog, in which...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Worthwhile Reads: Santorum, environmentalism, and more

Julie Ingersoll's excellent article, "Obama’s 'Phony Religion' is Environmentalism, Santorum Explains," discusses the anti-environmentalism rhetoric...

February 25, 2012

Carefully scripted lives: My concerns about the Duggars

I can't say how often I've heard ordinary Americans defend Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar...

February 23, 2012

Hell: The most problematic Christian doctrine of all

From my experience, I would argue that hell is the worst Christian doctrine of all....

February 21, 2012

Should women have the vote? (Yes people still ask that)

At some point during my teen years, I was at a homeschool conference and found...

February 20, 2012

Female Soldiers, Passive Women, and “Barbarians”

Growing up in a family highly influenced by the Christian Patriarchy movement, I was taught...

February 11, 2012

Respect: I do not think it means what you think it means

I grew up hearing that men needed to "respect" women, and that one of the...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

Vision Forum, Christmas, and a Marketing Scheme

I am subscribed to "vision forum" on google, which means I get an email each...

November 17, 2011

Vision Forum Catalog Covers

I just found this, a list of all Vision Forum catalog covers for the past...

November 06, 2011

Vision Forum Quick Takes Part II

I'm in the mood for a little levity. Therefore, in the spirit of that feeling,...

October 2011

October 15, 2011

Vision Forum and Titanic Worship

Vision Forum just sent out it's 2012 catalog. (Sidenote: I find it incredibly insidious that...

September 2011

September 20, 2011

Vision Forum: Fixing Problems by Turning Back the Clock

I've been doing some thinking about Vision Forum lately, and I've realized something. Vision Forum...

September 20, 2011

So they really are all connected?!

Growing up, my parents received magazines and catalogs from Vision Forum, No Greater Joy, Above...

September 19, 2011

Vision Forum Quick Takes

The Vision Forum website can be quite interesting. Today once I got home from work...

September 14, 2011

Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Christian Patriarchy/Quiverfull, and the Homeschool Movement

When you have a lot of different terms floating around, it's easy for things to...

September 13, 2011

Taking Dominion by Doing Laundry

Vision Forum talks a lot about things like multigenerational faithfulness (i.e., your kids should be...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Additional Update: Rethinking Vision Forum

Not to get repetitive, but I thought I'd take a moment to plug the Rethinking...

August 12, 2011

Uptate on website countering Vision Forum

First, Rethinking Vision Forum has moved from blogspot to wordpress and is now located at...

August 09, 2011

New Website Addressing Vision Forum

We are pleased to announce the creation of a new website geared specifically to countering...

August 02, 2011

Doug Phillips “Christian” Response to Earth Day

This post is the first in what might become a series of collaborative works between...