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December 2014

December 08, 2014

A Poem for Survivors

You are closer than you know More capable than you dream And more grace-filled than...

December 05, 2014

#NoSmallDreams

I use this hashtag in my correspondence every time I mention a Really Audacious Goal....

December 03, 2014

What Dancing Badly Taught Me About Faith

I am not a dancer. This is not the blithe claim of a former cheerleader...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Happy Thoughts

When I was fifteen, I bought a journal and a set of brightly-colored markers with...

November 21, 2014

Healing Spiritual Abuse with Creativity: A Journey in Music, Dance, and Ditching the “Box”

A guest post by Jaime Marich, Ph.D. I didn’t receive messages growing up that dancing...

November 19, 2014

How to Pray When You Can’t Pray to God

“I want to pray, but I don’t believe in God,” a woman said as a...

November 17, 2014

Why I Love My Body

Accidentally eavesdropping from a bathroom stall in the kind of fancy-schmancey restaurant that I only...

October 2014

October 11, 2014

5 Lies Christians Tell About Mental Illness

In honor of National Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 5-11), I invited minister and social...

October 09, 2014

Dear Brittany Maynard: Not All Christians Are Against You

Dear Brittany, Not all Christians are against you. It may seem like it today, when...

October 08, 2014

NYT Bestselling Author A.J. JACOBS Talks Unity, Diversity, A Little Religion & A Whole Lot of Cousins

It’s almost hard for me to say what I like the most about A.J. Jacobs....

October 03, 2014

Christianish: Or, What Yom Kippur Taught Me About Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome

This scene from my upcoming memoir Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome occurred Saturday, October 8, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio,...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

Waiting for Official Permission to Heal? Here it is.

My family's favorite movie is What About Bob. We watch and re-watch it on holidays,...

September 22, 2014

37 Shades of Jesus

I blame the content of this post on Homeschool Jesus. Last week I mentioned “Homeschool...

September 21, 2014

Martha Beck & Lissa Rankin Jam: 3 Spiritual Practices That Ease Suffering & Tune Into Peace

Eight years ago, when I was twenty-four and chronically ill, I cut out a picture...

September 15, 2014

Why I call God “Sam”

I call God "Sam". A little scandalous? Maybe. Unorthodox? Absolutely. But it works for me, and...

September 14, 2014

What is Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome? Part Two

In Part One, we established that PTCS is a spiritual health condition that acts as...

September 13, 2014

What is Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome? Part One

Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome (PTCS) is a spiritual injury that is every bit as real and...

August 2014

August 25, 2014

Dear College Freshmen: 10 Things I Wish I’d Known My First Week of College

Dear Sweet, Starry-Eyed (and quite possibly hung-over) Freshmen Everywhere: Today you’re leaving your dorm room,...

August 22, 2014

Formerly Fundie asks: “Do you have Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome?”

Written by Benjamin L. Corey, this post first appeared on his blog, Formerly Fundie. Do you...

August 20, 2014

Archdiocese of Cincinnati: Just Say NO to Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS Association

This afternoon, WCPO in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported a story with the headline: Archdiocese of Cincinnati...

August 19, 2014

The Liberation of Sophia: Art that speaks

"Faith means moving forward by whatever means we can." -Julia Cameron David Hayward’s (aka The...

August 18, 2014

Reba Riley with Martha Beck & Lissa Rankin

THANK YOU for helping make the launch of Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome a wild success! The...

August 18, 2014

Truth in the Grocery Aisle

I don’t give money to people on the street. On a good day, I give...

August 11, 2014

A Bead And An [Interfaith] Prayer

This sweet little book arrived in my mail the week I was working on final...

August 10, 2014

Guest Post: My Surprisingly Peaceful Visit to Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber’s HFASS

A reminder that while churches can hurt, they can also heal. This guest post is by Tammy...

August 05, 2014

Divergent + Christian = ?

"I don't want to be just one thing. I can't be." -Four (Theo James) in...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

Forgiving the Church…With a Sledge Hammer

By: James Alexander Langteaux I am probably the poster child for Post Traumatic Church Syndrome....

July 14, 2014

11 Religions “Same in Heart”

"You pray in heart?" my favorite Muslim cab driver asked me from the front seat....

June 2014

June 15, 2014

After Father’s Day: This Picture Tells A Thousand Lies

This picture lies. Yes, it is me and my Dad sharing the father-daughter wedding dance. Yes,...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Why I’m an Atheist Who Believes in God by Frank Schaeffer

Excerpts from my interview with New York Times bestselling author Frank Schaeffer about his new...

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