Print FriendlyWarning: 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 Full post …
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No Longer Quivering Celebrates 1st Year!♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪
Print Friendly 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 Full post …
Remembering the “Birth Story” of NLQ
Print Friendly by Vyckie Back in January of last year, I was checking out articles on Alternet ~ the progressive news site which my uncle Ron had introduced to me during that momentous year of our correspondence which I’ve come to think of as my “rehab” days ~ it was a year of waking up to the fact that my strict fundamentalism was not only unhealthy for me, but was also destroying my family, going through the withdrawal-like process of freeing my thought life from its narrow, black/white thinking patterns, getting clean of the “virus of the Full post …
Looking Back: My Family 10 Years on From Fundamentalism
Print Friendly by Arietty The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. ~ L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between When looking back at my family during our days of patriarchal fundamentalism this opening line in the novel The Go-Between often comes to mind. In the last decade we have journeyed so far from where we once were we may have well have moved countries entirely. In the beginning of our journey we were like refugees, clinging to our past forms and beliefs while trying to figure out what part of this new culture wouldn’t Full post …
Barren
Print Friendlyby Calulu Of all the things that happened during my ten years in the Quiverful movement I think that the one thing that caused me the most pain was my inability to bear children. Being infertile in a movement based upon the notion that God grants the righteous a full quiver of arrows led to all sorts of interesting assumptions by people that swore I was their Sister in Christ. Based upon the ways I was treated because of my fertility challenges I came to realize that my church ‘family’ was as dysfunction and Full post …
An NLQ Christmas ‹(ô¿ô)›
Print Friendlyby Vyckie Christmas used to be a super big deal at our house. I always went all out with way too many Christmas decorations, we baked cookies and made candy, we visited nursing homes, we went caroling… Oh, and the traditions ~ I incorporated every tradition I ever heard of into our Christmas celebration, and even invented a unique, and very touching tradition of my own. Each year, we bought a nativity set and mailed out one piece per day to a specially-chosen family along with carols, coloring pages, and Christmas devotions related to Full post …
Quiverfull in a Nutshell
Print Friendly Michelle says, Never enough babies! What the quiverfull movement doesn’t have is satisfaction. It casts itself as only looking for “blessing” but in many cases it seems to go far beyond that to reach the collectors’ mentality which bespeaks more of greed, grabbing for every child you can, and if you don’t do that, you fail spiritually. It’s an insidious teaching and my only regret in accepting my atheism is knowing that there will be no ultimate reckoning where those who promoted and gained from this teaching do not face what they have Full post …
I Have Won
Print Friendlyby Tapati Crashing against the wall World spinning crazily Your voice from a distance Screaming in fury Self righteous condemnation Again the blows come They seem to explode inside my head I don’t see your fist in its journey towards my body. In defeat I huddle Arms over my head, shielding in vain Knees drawn up to chest I believe this is the end. Finally you finish Your anger and frustration relieved. Surprised to be alive I remain where I am, in shock. Slowly reason returns. I try to pull myself together Clutching the Full post …
Michelle says, Never enough babies!
