No Longer Quivering

Josh Duggar: Rabid Gay-Hating Tea-Party-esque?

Suzanne Calulu — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:50:47 +0000

Yesterday it was announced finally that Josh Duggar is officially joining the Family Research Council as the Executive Director of FRC Action. The scuttlebutt and rumors have been saying he was taking a paid position with FRC for quite some time now. Guess being on a television show and his used car dealership really paid [...]

Quoting Quiverfull: The Instruction Business?

Suzanne Calulu — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:16:07 +0000

by Jay Younts of Shepherd Press - “Fathers are in the instruction business” Fathers are in the instruction business–the business of instructing their children to live obediently for the glory of God. Our culture has come to scoff at and even disdain this notion. Parents, and fathers in particular, are seen more as caregivers than [...]

Fascinating Womanhood Review: Introduction

Suzanne Calulu — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:23:52 +0000

by Samantha cross posted from her blog Defeating The Dragons In the quoted portions, bold are my emphasis, italics are hers. That, folks, is what we’re going to be talking about today, and I’m going to start us off with a short explanation of what the male gaze is. It’s a term that gets thrown [...]

Trim Healthy Mama – Snake in the Grass

Suzanne Calulu — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:53:28 +0000

by Calulu This morning as I was playing my morning interesting Russian roulette (dangerous for my cup of coffee!) of reading through the various Quiverfull ministry sites I came across an update for the ladies of “Trim Healthy Mama”. If you haven’t heard of “Trim Healthy Mama” it is a book published by Above Rubies [...]

Quoting Quiverfull: Building a House Means Birthing Those Babies?

Suzanne Calulu — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:16:49 +0000

by Nancy Campbell at Above Rubies – Building Also Means… Further to my post yesterday, there is more involved in the word building than meets the eye. The word in the Hebrew is “banah.” Yes, of course it means to build. However, it also means to repair. We have to keep repairing things in our [...]

A Disconnected Father’s Day

Suzanne Calulu — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:29:02 +0000

by Heather Doney cross posted from her blog Becoming Worldly Today lots of people are celebrating “Dad time” but I am not. Most of the time I just let this holiday go by without too much attention but today I figured I had something to share, even if it’s a bit heavy. I know [...]

Quoting Quiverfull: Influencing Free Choice

Suzanne Calulu — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:57:49 +0000

By Michael and Debi Pearl on fatherhood: How do we as fathers influence our children’s free will to make a choice to love God? Many young parents write, alarmed by the end results of other people’s grown homeschooled children. They want to know how we raised our children to be emotionally sound, hard workers, free [...]

Quoting Quiverfull: Biblical Fatherhood?

Suzanne Calulu — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:44:54 +0000

Instead of listening just one pastor or leader talking about his ideas on Biblical Fatherhood we’ll be listing a pile of quotes by many different people in fundamentalism. Brian Cranford – Bible Brian talks about his son Ryan - Nolan started going preaching with me very early in his life and god has give him [...]

Saturday News Links: June 15, 2013

Suzanne Calulu — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:19:26 +0000

Billy Graham’s grandson speaks out about the Sovereign Grace Ministries lawsuit – http://www.christianpost.com/news/billy-grahams-grandson-responds-to-sovereign-grace-ministries-lawsuit-97590/ Interesting article about why young people are choosing to be atheists in record numbers now – http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/listening-to-young-atheists-lessons-for-a-stronger-christianity/276584/ Richmond Outreach Center or ROC has let go four of their pastors, including Geronimo Aguilar in the wake of his arrest for molesting children [...]

CTBHHM: The Command Man Tames the Shrew

Suzanne Calulu — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:07:00 +0000

by Libby Anne cross posted from her blog Love Joy Feminism Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 77-80 You might want to start out by getting a glass of wine. You’re going to need it. This week Debi tells us about the first of her three types of men, Command Men. A few men [...]