Tag: prayer closet

The 49 Character Qualities of Ruth #8

February 27, 2010

Security vs. Anxiety -Structuring my life around that which is eternal and cannot be destroyed or taken away (John 6:27) – Bill Gothard by RazingRuth (Note from Ruth: This chapter is about my experience and my life.  This is not intended to represent any family but my own or any childhood but my own.  I fully realize that the adults involved made choices that were, even if influenced by ATI discipline strategies, in fact, choices.  Not all ATI families utilize the same strategies or would implement them in the same manner.  In addition, I am not Full post …

Are Scott and Andrea Bass a Quiverfull couple?

February 13, 2010

This article was originally posted at She Keeps Bees. by KM You have probably heard the story by now.  Scott and Andrea Bass, the Arizona couple who locked a fourteen year old girl in a bathroom without running water for two months and tortured her to the point of starvation?  I’m wondering if this is a homeschooling Quiverfull family–and, if so, why the media has not remarked on it yet? Let me be very clear here: I am not making this leap based merely on reports that the family homeschools. I recognize that it is Full post …