Editorial note: I wrote this opinion and organized this protest in a personal capacity. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views or positions of any of my employers. One City Church is hosting a speaker who is a known apocalyptic far-right conspiracy theorist, who’s alsoContinueContinue reading “Protest Perry Stone! One City Church conference speaker accused of abusing 12 different women”
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No more secrets: How I feel about National Coming Out Day
It’s just not worth it to live with secrets. My social media feeds have been flooded with National Coming Out Day posts over the last week, and I realized while reading through them that it’s such a relief to able to tell people the truth, to not have to hide anything. I keep thinking aboutContinueContinue reading “No more secrets: How I feel about National Coming Out Day”
I overheard a church discipline meeting at the coffee shop where I work. This is why Evangelicals are losing people.
Creative Commons image courtesy of Pixabay, karishea. So last night I was closing up for the night at the coffee shop where I work, and there were these people sitting at a table who go to an evangelical-ish hipster church in my community. I’ve seen some of their events advertised on Facebook and I talkedContinueContinue reading “I overheard a church discipline meeting at the coffee shop where I work. This is why Evangelicals are losing people.”
The journey continues: How I’m healing from spiritual abuse
Originally posted on Facebook April 20, 2018. So for those of you who’ve been around me a while know that I came out of a fundamentalist Christian background, and I’ve been working on weeding those things out of my life for several years. Those old thought patterns were rooted in some people’s unhealthy desires toContinueContinue reading “The journey continues: How I’m healing from spiritual abuse”
Remembering Pege
Photo: Hannah Rogers Last month was hard. It seems like I always lose people I care about in October. When you leave fundamentalism, usually no one from that world will listen to you, especially not a parent. Pege and her husband were different. I’d been kicked out of my church two and a half yearsContinueContinue reading “Remembering Pege”
Eleanor Skelton 