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Feb 27 2010
It has snowed since June here, or rather, it has felt that way. In my opinion, I think it is time to go preemptive and kill all the groundhogs. February 1st 2011 is the deadline….
This is a picture I took this morning on our back doorstep. The snow was 6 plus inches, but we do live on top of a mountain. This was the longest icicle.
Feb 22 2010
Cohabitation is a less stable form of relationship today than it was 15 years ago and particularly for couples with children, says relationships charity The Jubilee Centre.
A fresh analysis of national data by the centre shows that cohabitations are rarely a long term lifestyle choice and the vast majority last only a short time before being converted into marriage or dissolving.
Sep 10 2009
Recently, during private conversations, I believe that I have identified two separate understandings/movements of Quiverfull. One supports large families, and acknowledges that it is not for everyone, seeing it as a call. Further, this group are interspersed among various denominations and congregations.The husband-wife relationship is not a master-slave relationship, but a Traditional understanding of family headship.
The second group are better called the Patriarchal Quiverers which has an extreme view of the husband-wife relationship, and extreme view of the intrusion of society (such as medicine), and an extreme few of large families – taking literal the charge in Timothy about child-bearing.
Maybe I am wrong. Anyway, Bene Diction Blogs On on this subject
Sep 01 2009
I didn’t know if I wanted to post this or not, but since it does have something to do with religion, I figured I might. (I always enjoy a good conversation.) While speaking with our midwife the other day, she informed us of the dangers of this many children (no, 3 should be about enough for us). Some of the extreme dangers of Quiverfull, which is a movement located generally in the United States, include death to the mothers – but there are also extreme views on the relationships between the husband and wife.
I have watched, a little, of the Duggers on TLC, and have not see the extreme views of what other women in this movement have described, but it is still disconcerting, at least for my wife and I, to learn of the dangers of this many childbirths.
What say ye?
Continue reading “Quiverfull? Full of Kids, at least: Duggers to have 19th child”
Aug 26 2009
The Stastics concern:
% of girls and women aged 15–49 who responded that a husband or partner is justified in hitting or beating his wife under certain circumstances (2001–2007)
Continue reading “Attitudes towards domestic violence – Country data”
Aug 09 2009
We were attacked by geese this morning.
As most of you know, we are having a family devotional in the local park on Sunday mornings until we find God’s direction for a new congregational home, feeding the ducks and playing on the playgound.
Aug 08 2009
Though often defined as a church with more than 2,000 in worship attendance, the “megachurch” is more than that. It’s that more that attracts so much controversy.
Aug 06 2009
As I reading Nehemiah, I came across this interesting verse:
Three families of priests– Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai– also returned. (This Barzillai had married a woman who was a descendant of Barzillai of Gilead, and he had taken her family name.) (Neh 7:63 NLT)
Why do you think he did that and why do you think it escaped condemnation from Nehemiah?
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