Just Pray for Him: How the Christian Church Refuses to Hold Abusive Men...
By Lisa Kroulik © Cross posted with permission from Hub Pages - http://nybride710.hubpages.com/hub/How-the-Christian-Church-is-Failing-Abused-Women One of the more difficult things to recover from...
View ArticleMillipede: Part 8
by Millipede The next couple of years were what I would call the “golden years” of Patriarchy. By this I mean that we were living the Patriarchal dream, with the husband “leading” and providing and the...
View ArticleBaptist Taliban Part 2
by Cindy Foster FAMILY AS NEIGHBORS At first we lived in duplexes right next door to each other. Then, both families jointly purchased five acres, divided them equally and each built a house on their...
View ArticleMillipede: Part 9
by Millipede That what was forgotten…. All this time though a dark wave was cresting over our existence. Through the years as my husband gained weight until he was morbidly obese, health problems...
View ArticleMillipede: Part 10
by Millipede In face of these events, I found work. Once I overcame my husband’s reluctance to enter the workforce, he seemed to accept the situation. He drove me to pick up applications. He still held...
View ArticleReview: Pixar’s Brave is Braver Than it Looks
by Sierra Pixar’s Brave is every fairy tale and none of them. It’s every trope and none of them. It’s filled with lovable scamps, bumbling eccentrics, defiant courage, enchanted landscapes, stifling...
View ArticleWho Was That Masked Man: Part 9
by Calulu High school graduation loomed for Tom’s oldest non-disabled kid, a son that’s as bright as they come. The son has always been in the gifted and talented program at the local schools and was...
View ArticleJustice is No Lady: Chapter 11: Jack, the One I Lost
by Tess Willoughby When Jack was just a baby, Nate had rejected Jack’s personality, and had set out to beat and berate it out of him. When Jack reached middle school age, or perhaps a little bit...
View ArticleWho Was That Masked Man? Part 7
by Calulu After the incident with the pregnant daughter of a friend we had another reprieve from Tom and Tina. We’d see them at church but they’d stopped coming to the bible study group. I’d heard that...
View ArticleHappily Abused
Trigger warning: Christian woman’s advice to abused wives reads like a handbook for ascetic self-mortification. How to Use a Woman’s Faith & Trust to Make Her a Willing Accomplice to Her Own Abuse...
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