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What ‘The Walking Dead’ taught me about healthy forgiveness without obligation

I wrote this in my journal on December 10, 2021. Learning what forgiveness looks like outside of fundamentalist Christianity, what forgiveness can be like when it’s healthy and not harmful for the person doing the forgiving, has been so important to me in my journey to leave behind and heal from high-control religion. So IContinueContinue reading “What ‘The Walking Dead’ taught me about healthy forgiveness without obligation”

Protest Perry Stone! One City Church conference speaker accused of abusing 12 different women

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”

Breathless, waiting for dawn

Just north of Trinidad, Colorado on Interstate 25, October 26, 2019, 6:31 a.m. “I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been — if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left inContinueContinue reading “Breathless, waiting for dawn”

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”

Unfundamentalist Thoughts: What do Christians mean when they say ‘our joy is not based on this world’?

It only takes a few words to send me back. Certain phrases just set me off. It can be something simple, so common that most average Christians wouldn’t even notice it. But those words meant something else in the fundamentalist cult I grew up in. I go to a not-crazy church now because it’s helpedContinueContinue reading “Unfundamentalist Thoughts: What do Christians mean when they say ‘our joy is not based on this world’?”