Editorial Note: I re-wrote this post in January 2024 to better reflect what I now know about social justice and systemic oppression in the last decade since I left fundamentalism. When I moved out of my restrictive home environment and was kicked out of the cult my family was in, other friends in similar circumstancesContinueContinue reading “Why did you call it the UnBoxing Project?”
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The UnBoxing Project: The trouble with freeing people
My friends and I often felt like Katniss in the Hunger Games as we left behind the high control churches we were raised in and rebelled against those systems. | Source: Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. Continued from Being an angel with a shotgun. Content note: suicidal ideation, pastoral authority doctrine “Eleanor, does your churchContinueContinue reading “The UnBoxing Project: The trouble with freeing people”
The UnBoxing Project: Being an angel with a shotgun
Source: Konachan.com. Image links to source. Content note: domestic abuse, suicidal ideation, disordered eating Get out your guns, battle’s begun, are you a saint, or a sinner? If love’s a fight, then I shall die, with my heart on a trigger. – The Cab, Angel with a Shotgun (Nightcore remix) “Eleanor, my best friend’s parentsContinueContinue reading “The UnBoxing Project: Being an angel with a shotgun”
Nudity on stage: Theatre D’Art’s Paradise Lost retells Adam and Eve story with more vulnerability, humanity
The midsummer air in the upper room theater stifled, and the box office offered complimentary water bottles. I chose to experience the play barefoot. I knew several members of the cast personally or had seen them in other Theatre D’Art productions, intensifying the experience. My friend Dastan played Lucifer, and Dana (per tradition from hisContinueContinue reading “Nudity on stage: Theatre D’Art’s Paradise Lost retells Adam and Eve story with more vulnerability, humanity”
Help my unbelief
I’m often told by friends and blog readers that my “vibrant Christianity” is inspiring, that I “maintain remarkable stability in the face of incredible odds.” But I wonder if they’d still say that if they knew the me who sometimes wonders if spirituality is real or just a coping mechanism for survival, the me whoseContinueContinue reading “Help my unbelief”
Eleanor Skelton 