Just north of Trinidad, Colorado on Interstate 25, October 26, 2019, 6:31 a.m. “I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been — if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left inContinueContinue reading “Breathless, waiting for dawn”
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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’?”
Here’s why I blocked the Babylon Bee from my Facebook newsfeed
Originally written on February 17, 2017. I’ve hidden all posts from the Babylon Bee from my newsfeed and blocked their page. And why, you ask? Is having a Christian version of The Onion with Calvinist undertones offensive? Do I just think poking fun at church subculture is too sacrilegious? Nope, those aren’t my reasons. Here’sContinueContinue reading “Here’s why I blocked the Babylon Bee from my Facebook newsfeed”
I overheard a church discipline meeting at the coffee shop where I work. This is why Evangelicals are losing people.
Creative Commons image courtesy of Pixabay, karishea. So last night I was closing up for the night at the coffee shop where I work, and there were these people sitting at a table who go to an evangelical-ish hipster church in my community. I’ve seen some of their events advertised on Facebook and I talkedContinueContinue reading “I overheard a church discipline meeting at the coffee shop where I work. This is why Evangelicals are losing people.”
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 