“Told I talked too muchmade too much noiseI took up a silent hobby—Bleeding.”― S. Marie Self harm. When the darkness inside at last leaks out and mars your body. The reasons most people give for hurting themselves are complicated and diverse. Verbalizing the pain, punishing and satiating guilt, desiring control, a grasping to keep outContinueContinue reading “Self-injury: A Worldview”
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Defending God? Or just loving God
The flogging scene in The Thorn from the 2009 production | Photo: Jonathan Betz Photography. Last spring, my friend Luke from the group of awesome online writers I hang out with shared a quote on Facebook that has haunted me, floating in and out of my daily conversations. “Rebuke no one, revile no one, notContinueContinue reading “Defending God? Or just loving God”
Purity rings: How I reclaimed a patriarchal evangelical tradition
I was one of those pre-teens longingly looking through the True Love Waits catalog back in the early 2000s. Wondering. Waiting. Somehow, I wanted to believe that wearing one of these rings and promising to keep my thoughts pure and my body untouched would magically cause the man God had prepared for me to appear,ContinueContinue reading “Purity rings: How I reclaimed a patriarchal evangelical tradition”
Eleanor Skelton 