My friend Sam wrote this in her journal earlier this year. Like most college students, we both have existential epiphanies at 3 am during midterms. I talk about the Box a lot. It’s my term for fundamentalism and growing up homeschooled and isolated. My early school years were all in a converted storage closet withContinueContinue reading “Philosophy and the Box: Thoughts at 3 a.m.”
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How ‘The Village’ illustrates isolated, fear-based homeschooling
I grew up in the Village. The first time I watched M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 film, my head hurt and one of my roommates asked me if I was okay. I didn’t have words. Sometimes I find those books, those films that resonate so strongly with my own experience, that the bittersweet rush of knowingContinueContinue reading “How ‘The Village’ illustrates isolated, fear-based homeschooling”
Why “Not All Homeschoolers” and “No True Christians” responses are silencing dialogue
So I’m active in several online communities that discuss homeschooling and spiritual abuse. I also read a lot. Almost daily, I post articles and blog posts that I find interesting. I’m also Facebook friends with people I met during each of the four times I moved cross-country between Texas and Colorado, people from every churchContinueContinue reading “Why “Not All Homeschoolers” and “No True Christians” responses are silencing dialogue”
Purity Culture isn’t just a Christian thing
I spent my teenage years immersed in purity culture, in both evangelical and fundamentalist Christian circles. If you were homeschooled, went to youth group, or wore a purity ring, you probably know what I’m talking about. Purity culture was an ideology, a movement complete with books like Dannah Gresh’s Secret Keeper, promoted in concerts by Christian artistsContinueContinue reading “Purity Culture isn’t just a Christian thing”
How gender roles affect discussion groups in churches
So I moved back to my hometown and I started going back to my very first church. I haven’t gone there since I was 10 years old, and there’s such a blending of nostalgia and the now, and it’s wonderful and healing for me. I feel safe in this place, so old and new allContinueContinue reading “How gender roles affect discussion groups in churches”
Eleanor Skelton 