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Leigh Kimmel
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More horrific actions by the Crusaders, as they've taken to calling themselves. The brutalities, the rapes and the murders -- and more proof that the separation of church and state is good for both. When the coercive power of the state enforces religious conformity, fear-based fawning and masking replace genuine belief, and put the wrong sorts of people in authority over faith.
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Leigh Kimmel
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After the terror of confinement, their captors come to order two of their number to dig graves for those who died, with no consideration about their strength or the suitability of the tools. It's clear this is to break them down to nothing, so they can be remolded in the model of Jarrett's Christian America.
— Oct 15, 2026 12:32PM
Leigh Kimmel
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The horrific details of their capture -- and the terror of the mothers now separated from their children, uncertain if their children have even survived. And all this in the name of a faith that began with a reformist rabbi responding to the abuses of both the Jewish religious leader and of the Roman occupiers of Judea of his time.
— Oct 14, 2026 06:16PM
Leigh Kimmel
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What we -- and they -- have been dreading happens. Thugs overrun Acorn and confine them to a single building. These are more organized goons -- no raping and burning, just confinement, confiscation, and a promise of ruthless breaking down and remolding of them into the desired Christian Americans.
— Oct 13, 2026 06:17PM
Leigh Kimmel
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Discussion about the future of Acorn and the threat of President Jarrett's Christian America people.
— Oct 12, 2026 11:34AM
Leigh Kimmel
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The concern that a young doctor hanging out his shingle must have something wrong with him -- young doctors typically are hired by the company towns, because it gives their families guaranteed physical and financial security. But Lauren will not leave Acorn -- it's a community of people who've saved each other.
— Oct 11, 2026 12:35PM
Leigh Kimmel
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The formal Welcoming of Larkin, their daughter (who's looking back in the framing narrative).
— Oct 10, 2026 06:24PM
Leigh Kimmel
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The return of the wanderer -- but it ends in tragedy. He's rescued one of his sisters, but the other is already dead. And their pursuers deliver him wounds from which even a trained physician cannot save him. The intruders had far too much money for ordinary people, suggesting they're scions of wealth or are into illegal activities -- or both.
— Oct 09, 2026 11:59AM
Leigh Kimmel
is on page 159 of 424
Acorn undergoes a split, as one family decides to leave with Marc. Given that we know Lauren Olamina will die, leaving her child to be brought up by someone else, it's hard not to wonder how this rupture feeds into that disaster.
— Oct 08, 2026 04:44PM
Leigh Kimmel
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Lauren struggles with contradictory pulls -- stability in town vs the community she's building in Acorn. Marco wants to preach a sermon -- and immediately runs into the very different mindset of the Acorn community. And all this is in the past -- and we know Lauren will die, and wonder which of these events will build toward it.
— Oct 07, 2026 06:49PM
Leigh Kimmel
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Marc tells how he fell into the hands of slavers, and confesses that he now thinks of himself by the family name of the couple who took him in.
— Sep 29, 2026 06:59PM