[Gentle Journey]

But then why is it OK for people to continually tear down the magazine. Some of us, not just me, have been greatly ministered to by the magazine. I seriously read it for years before I found anything with a punitive slant.

If you don't like it, fine. State your belief. But I do like it. Others here do like it. We have the right to enjoy a magazine and defend it when it's being torn down. I have not defeded any punitive stuff in the mag. I've simply said it's rarely there and the good out weighs the bad. I'm sick of people saying horrible things about Nancy and AR. I'm not just going to sit here while people tear into AR, going through the site, picking out the few bad articles while ignoring the many, many good ones. Look at the Pearl site. Good luck not finiding a punitive one. Now look at the AR site. Maybe 1-3% have a punitive slant? To me, that's truly throwing the baby out with the bath water. There is no other ministry that lifts you up in your calling of motherhood like AR.

Let's not forget that AR is almost entirely reader submission. So even if you have issues with Nancy, it's very easy to turn to the 3rd page where her opening article is over. The rest is almost always entirely reader submission and maybe one of her daughters wrote something on food. Or the last article I read by her DD was about how blessed she is to have the life little girl's dream of when playing house.

I'm not defending the odd punitive thing, I'm defending a magzine and ministry that values motherhood, being a wife and a Christian. Those are the 3 most important things in my life.

This has wayyyy more soup than poop. I guess if you are anti-QF and anti- your husband leading your family than you would find it a little on the poopy side. But still the majority of articles are encouraging about being a mom, a Christian, a homeschooler, an APer.

I get and respect others who choose to not get a magazine that has anything at all, ever, to do with punitive parenting or the husband as the head of the family. But that's such a small, small part. It's a shame to discredit the entire ministry. SHould we never read anything from focus on the family or let our kids listen to adventures in Oddessy? Not use BJU as one of thier writers...can't remeber who, wrote a punitive parenting novel? Not use any Christian thing ever that has anything to do with punitive parenting in anyway would be pretty challenging. I however prefer to benefit from things while eating with a strainer.