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May 2012

May 25, 2012

Quick Hits: Modesty, LGBTQ, and “Honoring” Women

A North Carolina pastor's anti-gay tirade has gone viral on youtube. He proposes sending all...

May 25, 2012

When Modesty Makes No Sense

Whenever I punish myself by reading evangelical-fundamentalist blog posts about modesty, I run into images...

May 24, 2012

The Last Name Project

From Two to One and The Feminist Mystique are co-hosting a series called The Last...

May 20, 2012

Libby Anne: Christian Patriarchy and Bodily Ownership

(Note: This is cross-posted from Love, Joy, Feminism. The original is here.) By Libby Anne...

May 18, 2012

Joseph Branham’s Reactionary Letter

I was alerted to Joseph Branham's written response to the WHAS11 news story on his...

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 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 08, 2012

Homeschooling: The Good

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

May 04, 2012

Homemaking: The Bad

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

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 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 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...

February 06, 2012

(In)voluntary Submission

I've noticed a lot of comments on No Longer Quivering recently claiming that there's a...

November 2011

November 22, 2011

Modesty: a response to common misunderstandings

Inevitably, when I write about the modesty issue, I get some variation of the following...

November 21, 2011

How Modesty Made Me Fat

This isn't a story about how modest clothes allowed me to "let myself go" and...

September 2011

September 21, 2011

Throwing out the moral GPS

This is cross-posted at No Longer Quivering. Growing up in fundamentalism was like living with...

September 05, 2011

How to fake it like a Message girl

Women in the Message of the Hour are not allowed to wear makeup. They are...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

On Counterculture

"Culture" is a fraught concept just about everywhere. In the academy, people debate what it...

August 28, 2011

Overgrowth: the Story of a Big Marigold

My garden has been growing unchecked for at least a month while I tended to...

August 15, 2011

The Message vs. the Gospel: Lust and Responsibility

One Sunday, about a year or two before I left my Message church, my pastor...

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