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How Does Jesus Love You?

By Eric Pazdziora June 22, 2012 May 25, 2012 6 Comments

In May 2010, Hillary McFarland invited me to write a guest post for her lovely website Quivering Daughters, which offered healing for victims of Spiritual Abuse within the so-called “Biblical Patriarchy” movement. Not knowing at the time that this would turn

The Things We Want to Sing About

By Eric Pazdziora November 10, 2014 May 6, 2011 12 Comments

This is my contribution to Rachel Held Evans’ Rally to Restore Unity. Read about it at the link. Augustus Toplady was, frankly, a bit of a jerk. He was an evangelical Anglican clergyman with a strong Calvinist bent. If he lived

The Bondage of Betrothal

By Eric Pazdziora February 21, 2015 April 28, 2011 17 Comments

Another in my series for Quivering Daughters. One of the fundamental teachings of the Biblical Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements is the doctrine of “biblical courtship,” or “betrothal.” (My brother suggested the word “casuistries” instead of “teachings,” which is perfect except

Reader Question: Should Christians Celebrate Birthdays?

By Eric Pazdziora January 12, 2013 January 21, 2011 6 Comments

(or, Beagles, the Bible, and Birthdays) Ali writes: Have you written on “birthdays?” My parents taught us the bible teaches that birthday celebrations are wrong and selfish. I remember King Herod being an example. I also was the example for

Duck? Duck? Goose.

By Eric Pazdziora November 10, 2010 September 2, 2010 2 Comments

This is the first in what we hope will be a weekly series of articles at the lovely website Quivering Daughters. If you like this kind of thing or need some encouragement, especially from Spiritual Abuse, check them out! If

Reader Question: Did Jesus Teach Legalism?

By Eric Pazdziora August 11, 2010 August 10, 2010 5 Comments

Site reader and frequent commenter OneSurvivor (who by the way has quite a good blog on abuse-related issues) has rediscovered the best way to get me to write a post: Ask me a good question! No really, do; it gets

“I Have a Sign”: Answering Spiritual Abusers According to Their Folly

By Eric Pazdziora January 10, 2013 February 1, 2010 5 Comments

“Are you looking for a sign from God? This is it.” — seen on too many church signs In the popular imagination, Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist “Church” probably deserve their status as the archetypal hateful ultra-fundamentalist spiritual abusers.