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the falling-apart-ness

"And she was just so happy all the time. I had to know what she had, and she said it was Jesus." I heard someone telling this story this past week. I know they had good intentions. I understand what...

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hope rising

sometimes you find yourself crying on the bathroom floor and wondering how you ended up here again. sometimes you're tired, and weary, and worn out and ready to just throw in the towel. sometimes all...

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[source]"do you want to get well?", the healer asks, as though it were the most logical question in the world.i throw the book down, angry. of course he wanted to get well! the man had been lame for...

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motherless

i have a mother, and yet i am motherless.yes, families are all imperfect, but knowing that doesn't erase the deep wounds they have caused.we speak of "father hunger", but what about mothers?in this...

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wholeness

it is almost full moon and i feel her pull i want to dance to the rhythm of the earth my spirit loosed and free i am suspended between worlds in this thin place where sacred and profane collide i...

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before sunday

my god, my god, why have you forsaken me? my own heart cries with the man on the cross and it is worse than death, this feeling of complete and utter abandonment; the dense darkness overwhelms me.take...

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she writes

I've decided to give this blog with a new purpose. For those of you who don't know, I'm in the process of healing from religious fundamentalism and an eating disorder that resulted from that. It's been...

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she stops hiding

Shame is toxic.  In my evangelical experience, shame was a great tool to manipulate people into following rules. And if that shame comes through an authority that speaks for God? It's even more...

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she shouts

Feminism saved my life. The world I grew up in didn't allow for much in the way of individual identity. Our identity was wrapped up in religious language that sounded super-spiritual but stifled any...

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Article 3

This post is my contribution to the blogosphere's impromptu week writing on purity culture: in these bodies we live and die in these bodies we love and feel and breathe we scream and sing and paint and...

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Feminist Me

Today I'm linking up with J.R. Goudeau (www.loveiswhatyoudo.com) for Fem Fest! Join us?Image originally fonud HereI've written before about how feminism saved my life, but what exactly do I mean when I...

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Do We Still Need Feminism?

It's Day 2 of FemFest! Today I'm linking up with my friend Danielle from www.fromtwotoone.com! I'm always surprised by the number of people who tell me that we don't need feminism anymore. I've had...

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many years ago my mom told that she had the "spiritual gifts" of teaching and prophecy. i though that prophecy meant being able to see the future and have visions and i secretly wished i had that gift...

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when mother's day sucks (as told by pixar)

My friends are posting statuses about how great their moms are today and pictures of themselves hugging their mothers. I am not. I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian tradition with a mother who...

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Him

Potential TW for abuse. I found him on the internet today. Well, I've never really lost track of him, if I'm being honest. But he's a pastor again I see, a "counseling pastor" of all things. There's...

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haven

i am curled up on a couch all cat-like, drifting in and out of consciousness, warm and content and safe. the familiar laughter floats from the other room, wrapping itself around me like a blanket.this...

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Article 3

a letter to the holy heretics who chose to walk away from fear and shame and hate: i imagine you sitting across from me at a coffee shop your eyes all teary and red and that look of dog-tiredness that...

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i do not feel brave today

some days i come out blazing all fire and passion and ready-for-change but some days i don't feel brave. and this dark siren song of hopelessness fills my ears pulling me under the surface with each...

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it wasn't me you loved

i've lost a lot of friends this last year not to arguments or distance but because they woke up one day and realized they did not love me i was sick for so long always drowning i was a ghost of a girl...

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i'm sitting on my bed beside me is the suicide note that i wrote last night but i am still here i hold the paper in my shaking hands wondering where god was wondering where anyone was wondering why i...

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