I've moved this post from a Tabbed Page at UnderMuchGrace.com, but please note that it is post-dated to the approximate time when I joined in. It seems as though most of this network launched by Vyckie Garrison at NoLongerQuivering.com (NLQ) has faded away, but I thought that I would preserve what was left of it for posterity.
Since this blog network was established, most of the Second Generation Adult (SGA) bloggers have moved on from it also in support of Homeschoolers Anonymous, but I believe most of the activity there has either slowed or has come to a grinding halt. Some of that seems to owe to what I'd call a generation gap between the first generation Quiverfull parents and the SGAs who have stayed involved in the ongoing discussion.
I'm still a pariah that shares common factors with both, but I don't fit in either. I spent my childbearing years surrounded by quiverfull parents but failed to spawn for salvation, so I was marginalized by them. Along with many people in my own age group, I continue to learn the skill of speaking the language of millennials. (I don't do so well at it most of the time, and I constantly stumble over the sacred cows because my generation doesn't share the same ones. I don't recognize them until after much misunderstanding, offending the SGAs.) And I've remained a Christian, so that divide also creates challenges as well. Each generation seems to define that affiliation differently, too.
I think that the fact that most of these bloggers have moved on heralds a very positive change within this community. Some blogged about their struggles at the height of their difficulty, complete with anger and the darker days of grief. Those hard phases should be transient as healing continues to bring us through to the light side. It also means that the bloggers who made the discussion such a large part of their lives have gone back to living and thriving. May the healing and recovery continue as these works stand to bear the record and history of good intentions gone horribly wrong.
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From the No Longer Quivering blog at Patheos:
Through cross-promotion and collaboration, the Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network is a powerful way of supporting and promoting spiritual abuse survivors in our individual blogging efforts. We are working together toward a shared goal of increasing awareness of this issue of spiritual abuse – the control, the confusion, the devastation, our struggles, our triumphs, our survival and recovery.
Rather than being territorial and sectarian (as was the modus operandi of the abusive religious groups from which we have escaped), the Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network employs the proven, non-abusive strategy of teamwork to gain more visibility for all the individual survivor blogs – in this manner, we make more of a collective impact on Google’s radar so that the search engines direct more people to read about this issue of spiritual abuse.
Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of spiritual abuse survivors starting their own blogs - so many awesome, enthusiastic writers who deserve a significant platform! The Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network is committed to helping these survivors succeed.
THE SPIRITUAL ABUSE SURVIVOR BLOGS NETWORK
- No Longer Quivering – Vyckie Garrison, Kristen Rosser, Suzanne Titkemeyer
- Every Breaking Wave – Suzanne Titkemeyer
- Under Much Grace and Redeeming Dinah – Cindy Kunsman
- Quiver Full of Information and Hopewell Takes on Life -- Hopewell
- The Phoenix and the Olive Branch – Sierra
- Incongruous Circumspection – Joe Sands
- Baptist Taliban and Beyond and Finding Fundamental -- Cindy Foster
- Mari’s Muses – Mari
- Past Tense Present Progressive – Latebloomer
- The Life and Times of Bruce Genercser – Bruce Gerencser
- I Am Phoenix -- AJ
- Wide Open World – Lana Hope
- Feminist in Spite of Them – Sarah Henderson
- Leaving Fundamentalism – Jonny Scaramanga
- Love is Not Equal to Love – Mere Dreamer
- The Talking Llama -Boze Herrington
- The Lost (And Found) Mind of Kaleesha Williams – Kaleesha Williams
- Living Liminal – Living Liminal
- A Heart Like Mine – Nora Woodhouse
- When Church Hurts – Ellen
