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May 2012

May 16, 2012

The Modesty Myth: a new series on From Two to One

Those who remember my series of posts on the modesty doctrine will appreciate the new "Modesty Myth" series...

May 15, 2012

“Prediction” vs. “Prophecy”: Nitpicking to Salvage a Lie

In the WHAS11 News coverage of William Branham and the Message, they aired a video...

May 14, 2012

The WHAS11 Louisville News story on William Branham and the Message: a review

I am very impressed with Mr. Wasler's coverage of the Message on WHAS11. It could...

May 14, 2012

Breaking: William Branham on the news

A friend just sent me a link to WHAS11 News, a Louisville program airing a...

May 13, 2012

Christian Zionism and the Holocaust

My church was obsessed with Israel. We believed that Israel becoming a state in 1948...

May 12, 2012

Homeschooling: The Ugly

I was homeschooled through high school. If I had been able to leave fundamentalism as...

May 09, 2012

Homeschooling: The Bad

Having already covered what I think were the benefits of my homeschool education, now it's...

May 08, 2012

Homeschooling: The Good

I liked being homeschooled. To this day, I have no problem with it. Nonetheless, I...

May 07, 2012

Homemaking: The Ugly

In my previous two posts, I pointed out the advantages (an orderly house, fresh food,...

May 06, 2012

The Unforgivable Sin

Recently, someone stumbled upon my blog while googling this question: is the unforgivable sin abortion?...

May 05, 2012

NY Times op-ed: Rethinking His Religion

It's not quite breaking news, but I just came across this article in NY Times...

May 04, 2012

Homemaking: The Bad

As I wrote in my previous post, the stress on the importance of homemaking in...

May 02, 2012

Homemaking: The Good

A famous tagline from the film Paradise Recovered, uttered by skeptical hippie Gabriel, goes like...

May 02, 2012

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to address several aspects of evangelical-fundamentalist life that...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Little Things I Love: Yard Work and Blue Jeans

I love doing yard work. Well, not so much yard work as forest-work. I've been clearing...

April 30, 2012

Essential Reads

Melissa at Permission to Live has just completed a phenomenal series about her journey with...

April 20, 2012

Colbert Report: Gateway Hug

This video was too good not to share for anybody with experience in Christian purity...

April 11, 2012

Bedroom Submission, Birth Control and Tokophobia

Like most fundamentalist churches, mine taught that wives were commanded by God to give their...

April 10, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Bottom Line

My last two posts, and indeed all my thinking on the subject has led me...

April 05, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Mama’s Boy and the Other Woman

I have already written about the ways that growing up in fundamentalist-evangelical culture made me...

April 04, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Junior Wife

Libby Anne has begun a series on Emotional Incest at Love, Joy, Feminism. In her...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Why I Don’t Use Bible Verses as Evidence

It has been noted that my writing comes from experience and is secular in nature....

March 04, 2012

The hypocrisy of “paying for other people”

I am fed up. Truly, deeply fed up. I'm fed up with the arrogance and...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Contradictions: Who’s the Visual-est of Them All?

Fundamentalists argue that women should dress conservatively because men are visual. This is supposedly something...

February 21, 2012

Women’s Equality is Not a Pill

I support women's access to birth control. I use birth control, value it and believe...

February 17, 2012

Divorce as Salvation

Growing up fundamentalist, I heard endless tirades about the importance of having a set of...

February 11, 2012

How the Modesty Doctrine Hurts Men, Too

I've written a few times about how the modesty doctrine hurts women. Now it's time...

February 10, 2012

Why the Birth Control Compromise is not about “Freedom of Conscience”

From the Wall Street Journal: Vice President Joe Biden said he is confident the administration...

February 09, 2012

A Brief Comment on Divorce and the Bible

Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of...

February 09, 2012

The Old-School Logic of Abortion in the Message

I recently had a discussion with Libby Anne at Love, Joy Feminism about the logic of...

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