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June 2016

June 27, 2016

7 Ways to Raise Social Justice Kids

My husband and I, like most parents, try our best to instill our values in...

June 23, 2016

Unfundie Kids and Fundie Grandparents

How do you prepare to send your kids into an environment that stands for everything...

June 22, 2016

What Purity Culture Got Right

Here is the thing that I still believe from my purity culture days: The world...

June 20, 2016

Six Ways Children Do Faith Better Than Adults

Image: Pixabay It’s easy for the faith of children to go unnoticed. But here are...

June 16, 2016

The End of Child Liberation Theology

Liberation theology is a theology of self-determination. In Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century, Ada...

June 14, 2016

What Harriet Tubman Taught My White Five-Year-Old

Image: Wikimedia Commons My five-year-old tends to have a Song Of The Week—the random tune...

June 13, 2016

Unfundamentalist Parenting with Kathy Escobar

Image: provided by Kathy Escobar In my Raising Children Unfundamentalist facbeook group, many of us...

June 09, 2016

Respecting World Religions

I was at church once and the pastor was telling us a story about...

June 06, 2016

Today’s Fundamentalists Were Once Yesterday’s Progressives

A movement is happening, and in its purest form is about one thing: following Christ....

June 06, 2016

Parenting for Creation Care

This letter is reposted from the website Dear Tomorrow, with permission from the author, Christina...

June 02, 2016

The Little Girl Who Saved the Mighty Man

Naaman was the captain of the army of the king of Syria. He was very...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

The Hole in the Donut Theology

Does anyone remember the Donut Man? Like a donut, he says there is a hole...

May 26, 2016

Raising Social Justice Warriors

Those "social justice warriors"..... I see that phrase a lot, the quotations implying we aren't...

May 23, 2016

The Bible Isn’t a Parenting Manual

Scripture offers occasional parenting advice, and some of it is good, but the Bible was...

May 18, 2016

Kids…We love the Bible the way we love Star Wars

I am confident that my great-grandkids, when they play sword-fighting, will make lightsabre “vwing-vwing” noises....

May 16, 2016

When Kristoff asks Anna for Consent in Frozen

Dr. Christy Sim, a domestic violence expert, posted this on Facebook: "Every single time my toddler...

May 12, 2016

12 Antidotes To Toxic Christian Parenting

Every parent messes up their kids. It’s inevitable. But when you throw toxic Christian theology...

May 10, 2016

What Do I Tell My Child about the Bible?

I have this question but I don’t have a good answer. What about the Bible?...

May 09, 2016

Children, Disobey Your Parents in the Lord, For This is Right

I spoke to their children and told them, “Don’t be like your parents. Don’t make...

May 05, 2016

How Bathroom Bills Undermine Child Protection

I have read all sorts of commentaries lately both for and against North Carolina's so-called "bathroom bill."...

May 03, 2016

Parenting Advice that Correlates with Abuse

There are certain questions which inform my faith and shape my writing. Perhaps the most...

May 02, 2016

Raising Children Beyond the Christian Bubble

“Should I let my 12 year old watch this rated R movie?” “What are some...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Fundamentalist Hate, Unfundamentalist Love

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and...

April 27, 2016

Jesus Was Killed for Being Too Progressive

When mainstream society uses the term “Fundamentalism,” they aren’t referring to a specific Protestant movement...

April 26, 2016

From Navel to Knees – Naming the Unspeakable

"Ayuda!" My feisty seventeen-month-old daughter has mastered the art of asking for help, in Spanish no...

April 21, 2016

The Lot of the Abused: How We Shift the Blame Onto Victims

Content warning: discussion of child sexual abuse and incest. Now Lot went up out of Zoar and...

April 18, 2016

How to Talk to your Kids about Hell?

If you’re a parent and you’re not following Cindy Brandt Unfundamentalist Parenting, you should. Cindy explains...

April 14, 2016

Spring Rolls and Green Bean Casserole

Two Asians and a white boy walk into a room, (diametric'ly opposed, foes). It was...

April 11, 2016

5 Signs of Religious Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism is many things to many different people. For some, it can be defined by...

April 08, 2016

Parenting with Hope, not Punishment

Do you know anyone with a background in Christian fundamentalism? If you do, then you...

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