My husband looking at the estuary at sunset. Estuaries are places in between, not quite ocean, not quite river. I get a sense right now that the world is sitting in a place that is not quite one thing or the other, just like an estuary. These last few days have been rather hard to…
Not hamburger most obviously! Fried avocado and shrimp salad, both much healthier for you than that delicious red meat! Originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos in 2019. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer Due to some recent ridiculous claims we’re seen recently by people online I think today we need to talk about all the ways…
Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 25, 2014 One of the biggest challenges I had during my recovery from spiritual abuse was what to say to the people from my old church circle when I’d run into them on the streets of my small town. They’d always want to…
Written by Suzanne Titkmeyer originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on December 15, 2013 Recently Kevin Swanson, radio babbler and righteous rabble-rouser against all things not homeschooling fundamentalist Biblical patriarchy has been making more of an ass out of himself than usual. It’s not merely due to the fact that he has a new…
Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published on No Longer Quivering Patheos on May 12, 2014 A few weekends ago Vyckie forwarded to me a link from Mother Jones magazine involving a book written by Kathryn Joyce. Her new book is about the adopt craze among the evangelical churches and is titled “The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking…
Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published on No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 16, 2014 Mother Jones magazine has finally published Kathryn Joyce’s account of the Evangelical Movement’s obsession with adoption and the inevitable not so great outcomes when you don’t take practicalities of foreign adoption under consideration. Surely you remember not too many years ago…
Beauty is as subjective as as many varied opinions there are over this tree stump. Some might argue it’s beautiful, some it is ugly. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 4, 2014 Recently I came across a very disturbing blog posting and another and another and another. It…
Matthew 12:35 “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” You know it’s going to be bad when I post a photo of a calm blue ocean! Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on October 19, 2013 Today some of the more popular media outlets like Buzzfeed,…
Yesterday was a graphic example to me how the “radical submission” and “always smile, never complain” of soft or hard complementarianism just does not work on so many levels. We’ve tried it, and were both miserable for those years. It darn near ruined our marriage. Good thing too, because I’m not sure how I would…
Sadly I am slightly defending Katie Joy Paulson. Paulson is a YouTuber and former Patheos blogger who goes by the moniker “Without a Crystal Ball.” She tends to cover reality television in her videos. One of my big objections to Ms. Paulson’s business model is not the content. It’s the methods she uses to share…