Spiritual Abuse Survivor Blogs Network member, Sierra blogs at The Phoenix and the Olive Branch
Sierra is a PhD student living in the Midwest. She was raised in a “Message of the Hour” congregation that followed the ministry of William Branham. She left the Message in 2006 and is the author of the blog the phoenix and the olive branch
The Sexuality Project
Emotional Incest Series by Sierra
- Emotional Incest Part 1: The Junior Wife
- Emotional Incest Part 2: The Momma’s Boy and the Other Woman
- Emotional Incest Part 3: The Bottom Line
Daughter of the Patriarchy series by Sierra:
- A Terrible Secret
- Anything you can do, I can do in a skirt!
- Old- Girl in Young-Girl Disguise
- Scooby Doo and the Angel
- A Jewel or a Trash Can
- Hello, Miss Dog-Meat
- Two Snakes and a Virgin – the Serpent’s Seed
- Hairspray
- Casualties
- Signs
- Daughter of the Barren
- The Atheist
- The Sickness ~ Pt 1
- The Sickness ~ Pt 2
- “Why do you look that cow in the face?”
- The Dead Village ~ Living with Disapproval
- The Shift
- When Dreams Become Promises
- Surveillance
- The Waiting
- Doing the Math
- Daybreak
- Admissions
- Safe Now
- Stuart of the Golden Locks
- Ripping the Moorings: Part 1
More from Sierra:
- We are not the enemies of our best self
- Are you part of the pants, pants revolution?
- Prospect.org: Purity Culture is Rape Culture
- We thought modesty made us timeless
- You can’t stop the reign of guns and patriarchy without talking about religion
- Modesty, Body Policing and Rape Culture: Connect the Dots
- Emotional Control: Mandatory Happiness Makes Me Sad
- The Incredible Helplessness of Men: Lust Edition
- The Incredible Helplessness of Men: Lust Edition, Epilogue
- A Fundamentalist Christian Paradox?
- I Voted! (Suck it, Mr. Branham.)
- Jeremy Lott, Rachel Held Evans, and Taboos in the Evangelical Christian Culture Industry
- Evangelical Christian Marriage: Hawking the Product
- Can you TELL? of, Lies I Believed About Women’s Reproduction
- Ann Romney’s Gendered Martydom: Women & Children First?
- BelieveTheSign.com Issues a Public Apology for Promoting William Branham as a Prophet
- Chick Fil A “Appreciation Day” or Spite is Not a Christian Virtue
- Gloating and Slander: Michael Pearl, Nancy Ann Wilson and Christian Fundamentalist Responses to Criticism
- The Duggar Family Doesn’t Go to the Beach and Why That’s Bad for Their Kids
- Review: Pixar’s Brave is Braver Than it Looks
- Divorce as Salvation
- A Brief Comment on Divorce and the Bible
- How the Modesty Doctrine Hurts Men, Too
- Contradictions: Who’s the Visual-est of Them All?
- Throwing out the Moral GPS
- How Modesty Made Me Fat
NLQ Recommended Reading …
‘Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment‘ by Janet Heimlich
‘Quivering Daughters‘ by Hillary McFarland
‘Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement‘ by Kathryn Joyce
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