Apparently, to the Christian Right (at least those who buy special text books to shield their kids from the evil liberal agenda) electricity is a mystery. We just don't quite understand it but it seems to come from the sun or something. You can't make this shit up.

Here is the latest installment of my series, Patriarchy Across Cultures, at the No Longer Quivering blog, entitled Kung Fu Fighting. I explain that my abuser was, curiously, teaching me how to defend myself.

"The hijackers used fanatical certainty, misplaced religious faith, and dehumanising hatred to purge themselves of the human instinct for empathy. Among their crimes was a failure of the imagination. As for their victims in the planes and in the towers, in their terror they would not have felt it at the time, but those snatched and anguished ( Read more... )

http://yoursacredcalling.com/blog/courtship-questions-for-potential-suitors/

Hilarious!

Clearly God is a better person than I am, because if Pat Robertson were saying all these hateful things in MY name I'd smite his ass.

Finally, I have that baby in my continuing story at No Longer Quivering: Hard Day's Night.

The latest installment in my story for the No Longer Quivering blog has been posted.

When The Levee Breaks covers my late pregnancy, homeless and sleeping in a friend's cement-floored, unheated laundry room. I have added some detail into the story so even if you read an earlier version you will find some new material.

My latest guest blog entry, entitled What It's Like To Sing The Blues, has been posted on No Longer Quivering.

I spend a lot of my time writing about fanaticism and fundamentalism, and the way religion can be twisted into an abusive force. However, as religion scholar Karen Armstrong points out, compassion is taught in every religion. It is time to revive that and, as she says, it is the antidote to sectarianism and religious wars.

Karen Armstrong gives an ( Read more... )

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/03/joy.01.html

Transcript of show with segment about the Quiverfull movement with Vyckie Garrison of No Longer Quivering discussing QF with current QFer Rachel Scott and with author Kathryn Joyce who wrote a book ( Read more... )