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June 2012

June 03, 2012

Funny Quote of the Day

Fundamentalists use the Bible the way a drunk uses a lamp post: always for support...

June 02, 2012

Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project: The Questions!

Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project If you are interested in participating in a blog series...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

5 Phrases Christians Should Say More Often

Reluctant Xtian has written a follow-up to his previous post, which I linked here. 5...

May 29, 2012

5 Phrases Christians Shouldn’t Say

I just ran across the wonderful article below and heartily recommend it: Reluctant Xtian: 5...

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 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 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 20, 2012

Colbert Report: Gateway Hug

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

December 2011

December 22, 2011

Holiday Wars

As a former retail slave, I have a request to make of all last-minute holiday...

December 19, 2011

DotP: Admissions

There is now a new addition to my story on No Longer Quivering: Daughter of...

September 2011

September 13, 2011

Doublespeak: Freedom is Safety

Fundamentalism has a nasty habit of redefining words. You can tell they're doing it when...

September 11, 2011

Blog Recommendation: Rethinking Vision Forum

The Message, when you're in it, can feel like an island. You might think every...

August 2011

August 28, 2011

One year!

I've been writing this blog for a year now, which means a number of things:...

August 19, 2011

Good Reads

Nothing to read on the internet?! Never fear! Here are a few posts I've read...

August 08, 2011

The Message vs. the Gospel: What Defiles You?

William Branham's life story is published in a book series called Supernatural (no relation to...

July 2011

July 13, 2011

It’s not because you left the Message.

I decided that, lacking time to write in-depth blog entries, I'm going to refocus my...

November 2010

November 10, 2010

Anger and bitterness

My friends at No Longer Quivering and I are frequently accused of unforgiveness. The blog...

November 09, 2010

Hello to my new friends!

It's been brought to my attention that there is a new gathering space on Facebook...

October 2010

October 17, 2010

Why Branham? Why the Message?

    Hardly anybody knows who William Branham was, much less that he has an...

October 17, 2010

Mind control and the Message

    In another post, I discussed the defenses of Message believers against accusations that...

October 07, 2010

Elijah, but which one?

    Message believers take William Branham to be the last prophet of the gentile...

September 2010

September 18, 2010

The myth of the failing world

The end is near, it's nigh at hand The bride is gathering, the world is...

September 01, 2010

The fear of falling apart

During his altar calls, William Branham liked to tell a story about a young deacon's...

August 2010

August 28, 2010

The fear of falling away

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the...

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