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Why do we as conservatives typically limit our definition of "plain" to outward appearances (especially women's attire) and vehicles, but won't typically judge the "plain-ness" of houses, farm equipment, high-tech gadgetry, and business marketing tactics, which are often times ju...

Lifton's Eight Criteria for Thought Reform, often used by sociologists in indentifying cultic group behavior: 1. Milieu Control. This involves the control of information and communication both within the environment and, ultimately, within the individual, resulting in a significant degree of isolati...

I voted that I don't know why I'm here. At the risk of being called a shill or troll, I'm just a middle aged guy with the wrong last name who's still trying to figure all this out and is none the better for it. I came out of one of the "historic Christian Communions", and meaning no offens...

Berea Conference 1. Can they use internet? Filtered? No internet. 2. Solid cape dresses, small patterns, or patterns? Solid. 3. Suspenders or not? Solid shirts or plaids allowed? Suspenders and solid shirts. Broadfall pants optional. 4. Any car colors forbidden? Yes, in Indiana and KY at least. Not ...

Wade, To place your question in the broader context, I would suggest that the use of the Greek word "Presbuteros" was selected by the apostle Paul because of it's specific meaning. It is no mistake that it is translated as "elder" here and elsewhere. He could have chosen a more g...

If the scriptures are our rule for faith and life, should there not be there be an example or admonition we can point to in the New Testament for how one should navigate this?

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Take a look at this church directory from April, 2004. Take a look at this list from 2012. A similar total number of churches, but only about a third are on both lists. That's a lot of turnover in 8 years! :o To be fair, I spotted three of the churches on the original Charity list which I shared th...

Was. As in past tense for most of them. And sadly, not just Ohio. Take a look at this church directory from April, 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/20040407035802/http://www.charityministries.org/churchlisting/churchlisting-viewstate.cfm 12 years. It's really not that long ago. Less than 1 generati...

...Charity tended to draw in "seeker people" (from both old-order/conservative Anabaptism and as well as radical homeschool types from outside of Anabaptism) who were generally strongly independent-minded idealists, discontent with their current faith context. This worked great at first, ...

mike wrote:There's no such thing as "it" anymore if you're talking about the movement.

mike wrote:I suspect that there is some degree of identity crisis.

This. There is no longer a movement precisely because there is an identity crisis.

Proverbs 29:18: Where there is no vision, the people perish.

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