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White Nationalism and Racism in Christian Patriarchy’s Background
~FreeBirD®~ / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND A few weeks ago, someone outside the homeschool movement mentioned that my post on Bill Gothard sounded like a description of a White Nationalist. The claim startled...
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So Children of Gays Should Not Talk About Their Families
Back during the first proposition 8 election, I was teaching composition at a community college. At the end of the semester, students had to write a long argumentative essay and had to orally defend...
View ArticleYou’re Punished For Other Man’s Sin
One reason I like Samantha’s blog, Defeating the Dragons, is that she also grew up in fundamentalism in the south. Truly mixing fundamental and reconstruction ideas with Southern racism is a disaster....
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How I Believed Jesus Was Republican and Grew Up To Rethink It All
Since returning to the US three months ago, I’ve been through an array of culture shock from living overseas for three years. Some of its frustrating. Someone putting my clothes in the dryer and the...
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Traveling as the “Privileged” Race
I grew up in the rural south, and heard the negative remarks from adults that African-American kids were integrated into our school (no lie, at the end of kindergarten – I was not homeschooled until...
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Travel Narrative: Prague, the Defining City
Now I have told the story of how I gave up Calvinism and my belief in hell so slowly I barely noticed. But something much more significant had happened than just a change in theology: I had followed...
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Immigration Laws are a Bear
Immigration laws are a bear! I used to think America should stiffen up immigration laws, send back anyone who had sneaked into the country, and shun everyone who did not learn English. Then I became an...
View ArticleHow Should People of Priviledge Respond?
The other day I wrote a post about how I am the only female student in my graduate program. It frightened me a bit at the time, but now I’m feeling a bit better. Obviously I do not think other guys in...
View ArticleWe Liked Our Race
I’ve written before that I grew up in the south, in an area intensely battling racism and homophobia. The area is odd. At the “yamboree” as we called the county fair, the Ku Klux Klan had a booth each...
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Shared Space: Tossing the Old Narratives Aside
My post Duggars are Not Crazy caused quite the stir. It was mentioned on Freethought Blogs, The American Conservative, and The Dish as well as a few small personal blogs. From the commenting sections...
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