Tag Archives: growing

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”

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”

Sometimes I realize I’ve been lied to: Revisiting narratives we tell ourselves about terrorism + extremism

I visited the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial in September 2015. Do you ever still feel a nauseating shock when you realize you’ve been lied to? I know many of us have expressed feeling this when we got out of homeschool-ville and fundamentalist Christianity in one way or another. I visited the Oklahoma City bombing memorialContinueContinue reading “Sometimes I realize I’ve been lied to: Revisiting narratives we tell ourselves about terrorism + extremism”

Being. A. Human. Is. Weird.

So, like, I just moved across the country and I’m trying to figure out my life. I feel like I’m about to go through another metamorphosis. Growth and grounding. Usually I blog about things I am certain of. But I have more questions than answers and sometimes… sometimes I just want to write about theContinueContinue reading “Being. A. Human. Is. Weird.”