Daughter of the Patriarchy, epilogue: What does leaving fundamentalism look like?

April 4, 2013 By 5 Comments
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by Sierra Occasionally, I get asked whether or not I ever actually left my old fundamentalist church. My story on No Longer Quivering followed my journey up to the first year of college. I’ve wrestled with how to explain what happened in a proper narrative form, because the circumstances

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Stress, Pride, Shame and Frogs

March 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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by Cindy Foster In February of 2002 we attended our first five day stress in the ministry workshop.  We were invited by our close friends of near 30 years who founded this desperately needed ministry near 30 years ago.

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Religious Trauma Syndrome

March 27, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Calulu Several days ago a link to an article written by Valerie Tarico at Alternet.org arrived on my Facebook page. The piece was about a newly named syndrome – RTS – Religious Trauma Syndrome and

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Love

February 24, 2013 By 7 Comments
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by Samantha After my family left our fundamentalist cult, and my life turned upside down –many of the things I’d been told were “true” started unraveling. I started seeing patches of my life, of the way I had been taught to think, were hideously wrong

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Shedding The Burqa: Part 1

February 13, 2013 By 8 Comments
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by Cindy Foster It would be the last sermon we would ever endure as members of the Baptist Taliban. We hadn’t planned for it to be, even though by that time, we were painfully aware that our leaving was inevitable. It was just a matter of how and when. My husband already

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