Nebraska bans parents with abuse, sex assault convictions from… WORLD is a news organization producing Biblically sound, daily coverage of global, national, and cultural current events.

"Parents who have prior convictions of sexual assault or child sexual abuse may not legally homeschool their children, according to a new Nebraska law signed last week."

Interesting survey. Attention all #homeschooled!

Homeschool Experiences of Young and Emerging Adults: An Investigation of Socio-Emotional, Educational and Employment Outcomes

Homeschool alumni, take a survey about your life experiences!

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"Baucham’s premise is that daughters are property & tools to use to further the glory of God & demonstrate the headship of the father. He claimed that DV, sex harassment, abuse, rape...wdn’t be an issue if young womn remained under the direction of & obedient to fathers & husbands selected for them"

How Voddie Baucham’s Teachings Cause Long-Term Damage: Collected Interviews Girls and women trying to leave fundamentalism have many unique challenges and need support to integrate into society.

"I have been out for almost a decade, and I am still dealing with PTSD from the abuse I experienced—abuse that was fueled by the teaching of Christian Patriarchy."

I cannot think of more indispensable tools for advocates, researchers, journalists, and other truth-tellers than the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine. I used these tools constantly with Homeschoolers Anonymous and continue to use them today in my advocacy and writing. ✊

Youths Who Sued Trump Over Orders to ‘Unleash’ Energy Try to Revive Case

"The case is one of many in recent years in which young people have sued officials and government agencies over climate change."

Israeli Pressure Silences a Key Group Defending Palestinian Children Since its establishment in 1991, one of the most reliable messengers about life for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation had been a group called Defense for Children International-Palestine.

A great loss.

US edges closer to popular vote deciding winner of presidential elections Virginia signs national popular vote bill into law, joining interstate compact with 17 other states and District of Columbia

"Every state that has so far enacted the compact has Democratic electoral majorities."

It's also bad news for researchers.

this poem echoes my growing up too. we were taught we were broken, sinners, not our own. i am so glad i'm reclaiming myself & my soul now.

#survivor50 #exvangelical

there's a reason i wrote a book abt how i grew up. it's all there - umbrellas, abuse, exfather, exfam, fundamentalism.

i'm so glad i'm free and broke the cycles.

#BookSky #ReadingSky #Exvangelical #AuthorSky #2Spirit #survivor50

omg the exfam LOVED the frank peretti books so much & loved to point at them as books of truth. survivors are telling the truth.

they like to say i'm the crazy one. i published a book telling my story tho, so joke's on them.

#BookSky #ReadingSky #Exvangelical #AuthorSky #2Spirit #survivor50

This Lying Survivor Frank E. Peretti and Evangelical Fears About False Abuse Allegations

Evangelical Christianity’s distrust of abuse survivors and those who help them was a very popular sentiment among evangelical Christians during the 1980s and 90s and still continuing today.

the world i grew up in loved to change the truth. it was the way they controlled us. i'm so glad i left the exfam and the church.

this is bad.

#survivor50 #exvangelical

This is terrible news… @polcomm.bsky.social

The Deep Magic: A Triptych All have sinned / And fallen short / But I’m a special case.

All have sinned
And fallen short
But I’m a special case.
I know I am
Destined for wrath—
I saw it on her face...

Read the rest of my new poem here:

So, child abuse, like charity, begins at home.

[take that for what you will]

This is bad.

Families Are Not Umbrellas (And Other Myths About Abuse Prevention) Gothard, MacArthur, and the many other rightwing advocates of patriarchal, nuclear families are dead wrong. Fathers, parents, and nuclear families are not magical umbrellas of protection.

It is foolish to argue or act like fathers, parents, or the nuclear family are silver bullets we can use against child abuse, domestic violence, and other familial threats. Rather than silver bullets against abuse, they are most often the perpetrators.

Australia's social media ban for kids mostly isn't working, research suggests Australia's world-first social media ban on users under the age of 16 isn't keeping kids off the platforms as well as the government hoped.

"51% of those surveyed who used restricted platforms prior to the ban say the law has made no difference to their online safety, while 14% say it actually makes them feel less safe."

The Deep Magic: A Triptych All have sinned / And fallen short / But I’m a special case.

I wrote a new poem.

The left loses because we have no billionaires on the left ready step up and keep the Wayback Machine going. If the right wanted them to keep going instead of dying the money would be there.

American journalists need to politically lobby if they don’t want their industry to turn to ash

We can't let this happen

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

"A kneecapped Wayback Machine isn’t just bad news for accountability journalism—it will also be a blow to the legal system, as pages archived by the tool are frequently cited as evidence in litigation across the United States."

i grew up w the narnia books, bc those were the only allowed fantasy in our biblical fundamentalist world. pullman's books were evil bc they killed god.

i love them now bc i found out the truth abt god and left the church.

#exvangelical

Was Jesus Homeschooled? Probably the most famous Christian of all time is Jesus.

🤣🤣🤣

The sequel is great!

“The Golden Compass” And The Breaking Of Children’s Wills Like Pullman’s Magisterium, people like the Pearls (and others like Reb Bradley, J. Richard Fugate, Voddie Baucham, and Tedd Tripp) dangle the false promise of happy, controlled, and submissive chi…

In the Narnia versus His Dark Materials debate, I am fully Team Lyra. Lyra is an apostate and she's punk as hell.