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Do the 99 righteous sheep bleat, “Whatever it takes”?

May 142010

Warning: I’ve had the flu and a migraine and I’ve been quite miserable ~ so the following post is just me feeling sorry for myself ~ feel free to skip it if you’re not in the mood to listen to me whine and sermonize and lay a major guilt trip on my absentee Christian friends …

by Vyckie

The twenty-five years I lived as a born-again Christian was not just about living out the Quiverfull philosophy of welcoming all of the babies which the Lord chose to bless me with ~ it wasn’t only about homeschooling, home fellowship, modest dress, sheltering our children from worldly influences and faithfully serving as a submissive helpmeet to my husband.

When I first experienced the Lord’s grace and forgiveness ~ when new life in Christ became my reality ~ I was overwhelmed by His love for me and His mercy toward me ~ an undeserving sinner. I read the story about Mary, the harlot who anointed Jesus’ feet with expensive perfume and wiped them with her hair ~ His praise for this unworthy woman touched me deeply, “Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.” (Luke 7:47) Given my mixed-up background and all the guilt and shame which I carried in my heart even at the young age of 17, the relief I felt at having the assurance of the Lord’s acceptance compelled me to love much ~ after all, He had forgiven my multitude of sins and had raised me up from the insanity of a dysfunctional home life ~ how could I give Him anything less than my wholehearted devotion in return?

No Longer Quivering Celebrates 1st Year!♪♫•¨•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•¨•♫♪

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Mar 072010

Hooray ~ NLQ is a year old today!

What started out as a small blog with two Quiverfull refugees telling our stories has in just one year’s time become the foremost online resource of information regarding the deceptions and dangers of the Quiverfull philosophy and lifestyle as well as a thriving virtual community of a diverse group of women (and a few men) to support and encourage one another as we process our experiences and recover from spiritual abuse.

Highlights from NLQ’s first year:

In the initial days following the publication of Kathryn Joyce’s “All God’s Children” on Salon.com, No Longer Quivering received a tremendous response of supportive feedback and posts around the blogosphere heralding “two brave women” ~ within the first month NLQ was nominated for the Canadian “F-word” Blog Awards: Best Feminist Blog International. At the time of the nomination, our escape from QF was still so fresh and our comprehension of what we were doing so naïve, I asked Laura, “Are we feminists?” To which Laura hesitantly responded, “I guess so.” LOL

Enthusiasm for this project has not slowed ~ currently, the blog and forum are getting 80,000+ hits / “visitors” per month ~ “page views” is nearly 500,000 per month. The blog alone gets an average of 6,500 page views per day ~ the forum gets more than twice that amount. Average time on site per visit is 12 mins. and 5.8 page views per reader.

There have been a number of media opportunities ~ including my appearance on the Joy Behar Show to promote the “Born to Breed” episode of WEtv’s Secret Lives of Women. I got to go to New York City ~ and the highlight of that trip was meeting Kathryn Joyce in person ~ after all the hours she spent interviewing me on the phone, we’ve developed a friendship, so it was a real treat to visit with Kathryn in the lounge of the Millinium Broadway hotel near Times Square.

NLQ Anniversary Post by Laura!

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Mar 072010

by Laura

So much can happen in a year! Just a year ago Vyckie and I birthed this blog which has morphed into such a wonderful resource of encouragement and help for folks. It has also been a great place of healing for myself and I am so grateful for all the love and encouragement I have experienced through the birth and growth of NLQ!

I have been pretty quiet the last 9 months or so and it has been necessary for me to be so. Yet, in honor of the NLQ Anniversary, I want to come out of my silence, so to speak, and give you all an update on what has been happening in my life. If you are feeling a bit blue or discouraged or have just been thinking that life will NEVER get better…read on for a lift in your spirit. Dreams really DO come true!