Exvangelical Musings: Acquire the Cult Fire

Ron Luce is the founder of Teen Mania Ministries, a foundation that recruits teenagers to accept Jesus as their Savior as the first step in battling the "powers of darkness" that have infiltrated America through pop culture, the media, and liberal politics. "This is war," Luce insists, "and Jesus invites us to get into the …

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Exvangelical Meditation: Mass Graves and Residential Schools

Whether or not religious abuse is real isn't up for debate, as the recent discovery of mass graves at residential schools for Native American children continues to prove. I've heard some evangelicals use gaslighting language to try to isolate the issue (and to shift blame exclusively on the Catholics, as they are keen to do), …

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My Story: A Dream of a Million Feathers – A Tale of A Repentant Abuser

In 2018 -- 12 years after walking away from the church -- I finally went to therapy and confronted what I came to understand was trauma I still carried from my religious upbringing. The more I realized that I still carried so much trauma within myself, the more I knew that I needed to confront …

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