Photo: Image by WOKANDAPIX from Pixabay Content note: child abuse, homophobia, Christian Nationalism, religious and spiritual abuse By Whiltierna Wolfe Continued from Part 2 Just because my brother is a gay man, he has been outed, shamed, manipulated, physically beaten up, shunned, abandoned, humiliated, cheated, gossiped about, kept from serving musically in an Independent FundamentalContinueContinue reading “Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 3”
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Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 2
Photo: Pixabay Content note: child abuse, homophobia, conversion therapy attempts, forcing someone to not be gay, suicidal ideation, religious and spiritual abuse By Whiltierna Wolfe Continued from Part 1 The next person to try to “fix” my baby brother was our IFB grandmother, when she was told about my brother’s “problem.” She is our father’sContinueContinue reading “Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 2”
Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 1
Photo Credit: Image by Dmytro from Pixabay Content note: child abuse, homophobia, forced outing, suicidal ideation, religious and spiritual abuse By Whiltierna Wolfe It’s June again. This past Pride Month in 2022, I wrote this about my brother. Now more than ever, I feel it’s imperative to humanize the LGBTQIA community after so much hate.ContinueContinue reading “Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 1”
I Survived a Rural Evangelical Daddy Cult
Creative Commons Image by peacemedia_for_future from Pixabay Content note: child sexual assault By Stephanie Gail Eagleson What’s a “daddy cult”? When progressives hear the word “patriarchy,” they might think of systemic misogyny in politics and business. When I hear that word, I think of the religious framework that kept me and my six younger siblingsContinueContinue reading “I Survived a Rural Evangelical Daddy Cult”
An ‘Unrivaled’ Education: Educational Neglect in Adverse Spiritual Environments
Creative Commons Image by Nino Carè from Pixabay. By Evan Jones I remember staring at the young man in front of me as he chuckled while reviewing my college transcript and then quickly caught himself when he saw my face. This was a real transcript made up of four years worth of hard earned collegeContinueContinue reading “An ‘Unrivaled’ Education: Educational Neglect in Adverse Spiritual Environments”
You Are Not Your Own: And Other Lies Evangelicalism Taught Me
Creative commons courtesy of Pixabay, Patrizia08. By Ryan Stollar “You best learn to live while you’re alive.” — Cloud Cult Healing from any trauma, but especially religious trauma, is like an onion: many-layered and often tear-inducing. Tear-inducing comes with the territory of trauma. But the many-layered aspect is the tricky and often surprising part. YouContinueContinue reading “You Are Not Your Own: And Other Lies Evangelicalism Taught Me”
Finding purpose in PTSD
Creative Commons image courtesy of Pixabay, geralt. By Megan Benninger I’ve experienced so much spiritual abuse in my lifetime! Seriously, I’m a spiritual abuse poster child. I was raised in a very controlling, legalistic church and Christian school. After being thoroughly primed to submit to and obey my authorities without question, I moved on toContinueContinue reading “Finding purpose in PTSD”
The Vashti Initiative 