Usually the documentaries I enjoy are about religious fundamentalism and cults or evangelical culture. I watch to learn and for research. The other night I rented two movies from Redbox: the new live action Cinderella and He Named Me Malala. I thought I’d learn something from Malala. More about the culture of Pakistan and theContinueContinue reading “‘But for us, God is not that tiny’: Why I’m #withMalala”
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Outside the Box: Recovering from obsessive guilt
“i am still learning that i am allowed to be human out hereinside it was not allowedthose things made a bad thing happenso i still feel that. any tiny mistake… ” ~ anonymous friend Obsessive guilt is no longer my religion. But for many years, it was, and the scars left by it still lingerContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: Recovering from obsessive guilt”
Outside the Box: We are less fragile
My friend Mary Nikkel, who I once knew by the online nickname Elraen, was the first blogger I started regularly reading while I was still trapped in the cult my family was in, the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement. She blogs at Threads of Stars. Here is what she wrote about recovering from spiritual abuse. IContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: We are less fragile”
Poem: Outside
The sun is shining over the flowers my grandfather planted. They’re still growing, long after he died in 1995. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s February’s poem. We can breathe again, out here in the open.Drink in lemonade sunlightbecause each one of us hasContinueContinue reading “Poem: Outside”
Outside the Box: Where we’ve been, where we are
Looking at it now, it all seems so simple…The rest of the world was black and whiteBut we were in screaming color… – Out of the Woods, Taylor Swift We can breathe again, out here in the open. Drink in the lemonade sunlight because each one of us has faced so, so much dark. RightContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: Where we’ve been, where we are”
Eleanor Skelton 