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”
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‘Are you sure you aren’t exaggerating?’ | How we respond to homeschool abuse victims
You just decided you had a terrible childhood after attending a liberal college, right? You got influenced by the Secular Humanism. Actually… no. I kept journals growing up. Eleven of them, to be exact. Some were diaries, some were prayer journals. Diary 1: August 1998 to December 2000Diary 2: December 2000 to December 2010Diary 3: June 2011 toContinueContinue reading “‘Are you sure you aren’t exaggerating?’ | How we respond to homeschool abuse victims”
The Tea Maker and the Lighthouse Keeper
Another friend blended their own story into Cynthia Jeub’s lighthouse story and my lighthouse girl story. Reprinted with permission. (Cynthia Jeub is now known as Artemis Stardust.) Once upon a time there was a tea maker. They were a very ordinary tea maker, but they did have one unusual skill: they were very good atContinueContinue reading “The Tea Maker and the Lighthouse Keeper”
The Lighthouse and the Pirate
A short story by Cynthia Jeub (now known as Artemis Stardust), written before my lighthouse girl story last June. Reprinted with permission. It thought it was a brick. The brick was chipped, so it didn’t quite fit in with the other bricks in the shipment. It thought maybe the builder would cast it away forContinueContinue reading “The Lighthouse and the Pirate”
Why do you say you left fundamentalism?
A van with the Bob Jones University logo in the parking lot of Grace Bible Church in Colorado Springs, spring 2013 | Photo: Eleanor Skelton The biggest question that surfaced during the series on why I left fundamentalist Christianity was: “What do you mean when you say you left fundamentalism?” I’m mostly referring to theContinueContinue reading “Why do you say you left fundamentalism?”
Eleanor Skelton 