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The God Card: Ask Your Husband

April 6, 2010

How to Figure Out What to Do With Your Life, In One Easy Step: Ask Your Husband  The God Card ~ Thoughts on Patriarchal Teachings by Journey   Guidance for a wife is a very simple matter.  It seems to boil down to just asking your husband.  We have to remember that it is the man, the husband, that God designated to be the head, the authority in the home.  –Genevieve M. White, in Daughters of Sarah, p. 59 The woman who wants to be in control is a wife who is in rebellion towards God.  Full post …

The God Card: Thoughts from The Excellent Wife

February 11, 2010

Thoughts from The Excellent Wife The God Card ~ Thoughts on Patriarchal Teachings by Journey Someone in the church told me that I should have known it was abusive when my husband was controlling my life (the details of which are in the parts of my story that I have shared thus far here). It’s like these people don’t realize that the very books they recommend Christian wives to read are the very books that taught me that my husband was not abusive but was, rather, a godly man. For example, in the popular book, Full post …

Dear Happy Full-quiver-er …

May 10, 2009

by Vyckie Frequently in the comments section here at NLQ, we hear from women who are living the quiverfull/patriarchy lifestyle and are loving it ~ these women often feel that No Longer Quivering is portraying *all* QF/P families as oppressive and abusive ~ and understandably, they feel defensive about the perceived attack on their freely-chosen lifestyle. Early on, when we first started this blog, there was an exchange along these lines which I really have been wanting to highlight ~ and I’m finally getting around to digging these posts out of the comment section and Full post …