Photo: Megan McKinzey Photography We want to help one of our friends reach stability three years after he left an abusive ex-partner with a newborn. In the next month, he needs to relocate to gain better access health care and manage several chronic conditions that often go along with hypermobile Ehler-Danlos Syndrome, which causes frequentContinueContinue reading “Help an ex-fundie human trafficking survivor: This single parent + toddler are moving for better healthcare access”
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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’?”
Homeschool graduate explains their childhood fascination with investigative journalism
Editor’s note: I originally wrote this Q&A for the newspaper where I worked right after college, The Examiner. This column never made it into print, but I loved the interview so much that I’m posting it here, thanks to a suggestion from one of my journalism professors. Julia Kitchen has been reading local news sinceContinueContinue reading “Homeschool graduate explains their childhood fascination with investigative journalism”
Why I’m not an editor for Homeschoolers Anonymous anymore
Some of you may have wondered why I’m not on the Homeschoolers Anonymous editorial board anymore and no longer listed as an blog contributor. I’ve blogged less in the past two years for several reasons—being unsure how to navigate between my personal writing and my work as a journalist, saving ideas for freelance pitches toContinueContinue reading “Why I’m not an editor for Homeschoolers Anonymous anymore”
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 