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Beautiful, Beautiful Bitterness
The other morning, I came across a tweet from a self-identified “theobrogian,” calling for ex-fundamentalist...
February 2014
February 03, 2014
Not So Fast, The Daily Beast: On Rape Myths and Those Slutty, Gossipy Women
Content Note: Discussion of sexual assault, victim blaming This is a response to a piece...
January 2014
January 21, 2014
Can detachment from others serve life?
Calls for empathy and compassion toward oppressors and abusers are popular in American Christianity. I...
January 08, 2014
Proverbs of Ashes and suffering to save our oppressors
I'm currently reading through Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. In the...
November 2013
November 21, 2013
What “Love and Respect” and “Fireproof” Teach Abusers and their Victims
Content Note: Descriptions of Abuse, Abuse Apologism Ever since we started dating, my husband Abe...
October 2013
October 27, 2013
Privilege in Christian Pacifism: Fight the Systems, Not the Survivors
This is the second post in a short series I've been working on about the...
October 23, 2013
Privilege in Christian Pacifism: My Life is Not Your Thought Exercise
I wrote this post a few days ago and had it scheduled for today, but...
October 03, 2013
“You Are Not Your Own:” Wrapping Things Up
This post is part of a series called“You Are Not Your Own,” focusing on rape and...
September 2013
September 25, 2013
When churches hurt children
Content Note: Child Abuse, Spanking I've followed Stuff Fundies Like for years now. It's been...
September 23, 2013
“You Are Not Your Own:” Is Rape Just Another “Sexual Sin?”
This post is part of a series called“You Are Not Your Own,” focusing on rape and...
September 06, 2013
On Hugo Schwyzer and Christianity’s Open Door Policy for Abusers
Trigger Warning: Abuse apologism, murder/suicide, Hugo Schwyzer We have to talk about Hugo Schwyzer. If...
August 2013
August 05, 2013
Maybe God is a “bitch”
In the months following my decision to leave fundamentalism for good, I began to shy...
July 2013
July 29, 2013
When Anger Saved My Life
Trigger Warning for Descriptions of Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, Self Injury, and Rape. I...
June 2013
June 16, 2013
Would Father’s Day be different?
Would Father's Day be different . . . If Christianity wasn't preaching that, not only...
June 09, 2013
When my abuser is welcome at the table, I am not.
It's the cool thing in more progressive branches of Christianity now to talk about how...
May 2013
May 23, 2013
On gaslighting.
Trigger Warning: Verbal Abuse, Gaslighting He called me a slut. I remember it so clearly...
March 2013
March 29, 2013
The cross and radical activism
The idea that Jesus chose, out of his own free will, to go to the...
March 20, 2013
Spiritual Abuse Awareness Week: My Guest Post at Rachel Held Evans
Today I'm guest posting at Rachel Held Evans' blog, talking about abuse and images of...
March 18, 2013
Spiritual Abuse Awareness Week: Violences are Connected
Back in February, Sen. Marco Rubio explained why he opposed the Violence Against Women Act:...
March 11, 2013
Must reads!
Lots of posts that I want to share this week. I hope you'll check them...
March 10, 2013
My body remembers
[TRIGGER WARNINGS: Rape and Abuse] As many of you know, in highschool I spent a...
January 2013
January 23, 2013
Let me be angry.
Trigger Warning for abuse and rape: I've been tired of fighting. Been feeling like nothing...
January 16, 2013
No one’s Messiah
To Christian men and the churches they attend: I am not your Christ. Churches may...
January 11, 2013
Some humans are more equal than others: John Piper on spousal abuse and submission
I'm doing a series on complementarianism's manipulative claims at promoting equality. You can read the...
September 2012
September 12, 2012
John Shore on IFB survivors and my journey toward healing
This piece at John Shore's blog just awakened all kinds of emotions for me: In...
June 2012
June 27, 2012
No Experience Necessary?
If you wanted an expert opinion on something, usually you'd ask someone with experience on...
April 2012
April 16, 2012
Relevant Magazine, Hugo Schwyzer, and a thing called grace
Trigger warnings for rape, abuse, stalking I believe in a thing called grace. Really, I...
April 06, 2012
Never going back
Trigger Warning for Abuse I used to be in an abusive relationship. Once, I broke...
March 2012
March 20, 2012
When I can
People assume that healing from abuse is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually...
September 2011
September 05, 2011
Thoughts and feelings
The following is an exchange between Sarah the Thinker and Sarah the Feeler. Feeler parts...
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