Continued from Part 4 I remember when We used to drive Anywhere but here As long as we’d forget our lives We were so young and confusedthat we didn’t know To laugh or cry Those nights were ours They will live and never die Together we’d stand forever…- Skillet, Those Nights The first week ofContinueContinue reading “Emotional Hypothermia, Part 5: This is your life”
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Movie Review: Mars Hill Church’s ‘Good Friday’ film
Source: Mars Hill Church Editorial Note: I wrote this post in 2013, before The Seattle Times reported on Mars Hill Church’s senior pastor Mark Driscoll’s spiritual abuse in 2014, and long before the 2021 release of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast by Christianity Today. After I read the victim’s stories describing Driscoll’sContinueContinue reading “Movie Review: Mars Hill Church’s ‘Good Friday’ film”
Self-injury: A Worldview
“Told I talked too muchmade too much noiseI took up a silent hobby—Bleeding.”― S. Marie Self harm. When the darkness inside at last leaks out and mars your body. The reasons most people give for hurting themselves are complicated and diverse. Verbalizing the pain, punishing and satiating guilt, desiring control, a grasping to keep outContinueContinue reading “Self-injury: A Worldview”
Defending God? Or just loving God
The flogging scene in The Thorn from the 2009 production | Photo: Jonathan Betz Photography. Last spring, my friend Luke from the group of awesome online writers I hang out with shared a quote on Facebook that has haunted me, floating in and out of my daily conversations. “Rebuke no one, revile no one, notContinueContinue reading “Defending God? Or just loving God”
Purity rings: How I reclaimed a patriarchal evangelical tradition
I was one of those pre-teens longingly looking through the True Love Waits catalog back in the early 2000s. Wondering. Waiting. Somehow, I wanted to believe that wearing one of these rings and promising to keep my thoughts pure and my body untouched would magically cause the man God had prepared for me to appear,ContinueContinue reading “Purity rings: How I reclaimed a patriarchal evangelical tradition”
Eleanor Skelton 