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”
When your fundamentalist Christian parents stalk you
Stalking is usually applied to a romantic relationship gone bad. This is why people hesitate to believe me when I say I’ve been stalked by my parents. After I moved out, my parents showed up unannounced at work or on campus, asking me to reconsider and go to Bob Jones University. The first time itContinueContinue reading “When your fundamentalist Christian parents stalk you”
Spirituality not shunned in science
This article was originally published in The Scribe, UCCS’s student newspaper, on Feb. 23, 2015. By Eleanor SkeltonNews Editor The modern day martyr stereotype involves the Christian freshman debunking his atheist science professor, risking his A for a failing grade. But this scenario is incredibly rare. None of my science professors have ever attacked my religious beliefs. Instead,ContinueContinue reading “Spirituality not shunned in science”
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