Dispatches: Under Attack –Evangelical Christianity’s Reverse Victimhood

This is a guest article written by my friend and fellow exvangelical Shana Nielsen, who currently lives in Texas and is witness to the appalling attack happening right now on women's reproductive rights in that state. Shana's insightful story links these current events with a manipulative scare tactic that happened to her during a childhood …

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My Story: The Ones We Worship – Processing My Childhood as a Preacher’s Kid, and the Greatest Lesson My Father Ever Taught Me

As a preacher's kid, we are instructed that our first order of business is to worship and devote our lives completely to God. When you are very young, being told to worship God is, admittedly, an abstract idea. It's like being shown a picture of George Lucas and having it explained to you that this …

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My Story: The Vanishing Act – A Tale of an Exvangelical’s Monster

“If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice.” – The Joker It's taken me a long, long journey into healing and a brave, unexpected confession from someone dear to me to realize that it is time to tell this particular chapter in my story. Because it is not just …

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