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’?”
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Here’s an explanation about that callout post from fall 2018
So I have something to say about social media callouts. Several of you probably saw a post circulating about me last fall in which someone called me an unsafe person. They also said I called the cops on them because they were living out of a hotel with two infants. I don’t normally defend myselfContinueContinue reading “Here’s an explanation about that callout post from fall 2018”
I said nothing for years. Now I confront sexual harassment at work.
Creative Commons image courtesy of Pixabay, lounisproduction. I’m getting so much better at saying something when male coworkers say inappropriate things. Today one of my coworkers at the coffee shop came up to me when I was making drinks on bar during a flurry of customers and showed me an explicit meme with Kermit andContinueContinue reading “I said nothing for years. Now I confront sexual harassment at work.”
I overheard a church discipline meeting at the coffee shop where I work. This is why Evangelicals are losing people.
Creative Commons image courtesy of Pixabay, karishea. So last night I was closing up for the night at the coffee shop where I work, and there were these people sitting at a table who go to an evangelical-ish hipster church in my community. I’ve seen some of their events advertised on Facebook and I talkedContinueContinue reading “I overheard a church discipline meeting at the coffee shop where I work. This is why Evangelicals are losing people.”
The journey continues: How I’m healing from spiritual abuse
Originally posted on Facebook April 20, 2018. So for those of you who’ve been around me a while know that I came out of a fundamentalist Christian background, and I’ve been working on weeding those things out of my life for several years. Those old thought patterns were rooted in some people’s unhealthy desires toContinueContinue reading “The journey continues: How I’m healing from spiritual abuse”
Eleanor Skelton 