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'Arrows for the War'

By Kathryn Joyce, The Nation. Posted November 14, 2006.


The Christian 'Quiverfull' movement measures a mother's spiritual resolve by the number of children she raises, each one an arrow in the quiver of God's army.
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Kathryn Joyce is working on a book about Christian conservative women, to be published by Beacon Press.

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