Scripture
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Abusive Relationships and Fundamentalism
I spoke recently about laying down boundaries with one of my siblings and how she was told not to witness to my children if she wanted to visit. The conversation quickly pivoted away from any mentions about visiting. And it’s not focused on my younger sibling witnessing personally to me. “Again out of love I…
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Who Is a Wise Man
Mulling over a message from my dad. About the nature of man.
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Anderson and Abuse of Parental Authority
Abuse of authority and the New Independent Fundamental Baptist and IFB.
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Steven Anderson and Child Abuse
The New Independent Fundamental Baptist movement and child abuse in the Anderson home. And parallel thoughts about abuse within my own fundamentalist childhood.
Anderson, Child Abuse, Child Parent Relationships, Corporal Punishment, Correction, CW Child Abuse, Faithful Word Baptist Church, IFB, John Anderson, John R Rice, John Rice, Miriam Anderson, New Fundamental Independent Baptist, New IFB, NIFB, Parent child relationships, Parenting, Physical Punishment, Rod of Correction, Scripture, Steven Anderson, Zsuzsanna Anderson
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Teenagehood and Tragedy Ages 10-15 (Part 4)
CW: Depression, SI, Purity Culture, and injury of a child. Where We Left Off We had left off with the birth of my third sister. I don’t want to jump too quickly to trauma. And to be fair there was about a year of peace before anything drastic happened in our lives. But her accident…
Autobiographical, Bible, Church, David Lee, Deckerville Bible Church, depression, Elisabeth Elliot, Faith, Family, holistic medicine, Home School, Homeschooling, HSLDA, Isolation, Jay Chambers, Josh harris, Mental Health, Original Sin, Passion and Purity, Purity Culture, SA, Scripture, Sexuality, Sin Nature, Total Depravity, Trauma
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John Macarthur and Mental Health
The Christian war against mental health. (Minor mentions to disability)
adhd, Anxiety, Belief, Big Pharma, Christian Fundamentalism, CW SA, depression, Faith, Fundamentalism, Greg Locke, John Macarthur, Macarthur, Medication, Mental Health, mental-illness, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodivergence, PCC, Pensacola Christian College, Samantha Field, Scripture, sin, suicidal ideations, suicidal thoughts, theology
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Set Up for Failure / Authoritarian Parenting (Part 1)
Fundamentalist families set children up for failure by teaching blind obedience to authority figures, equating parental authority with divine authority. This stifles critical thinking.
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“Just Angry at God”
Not long ago I was sent a message by my mother. It strongly implied that the only reason I left my faith behind was anger at the divine. That if I had a more grace filled college experience I would have stayed within Christianity. She stated I should have attended a more grace filled college.…
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The Problem of Certainty
Exploring the extreme certainty fundamentalists often place on the authority of the bible. Big words such as infallible and inerrant are mentioned.
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Growing Kids God’s Way – Part 13
Chapter Fifteen: Discipline Issues (Part Two) While the previous chapter focused on a specific parenting “problem,” this chapter covers a variety of common childhood misbehaviors. All of which the author assures us are easily able to be controlled by proper parenting. He provides a list of these misbehaviors in the opening portion of the chapters:…
Freedom From Fundamentalism 