by Becky Garrison | Faith Deconstruction
Religious communities can be places of healing—or playgrounds for manipulation. In this advanced excerpt below, satirist Becky Garrison pulls no punches in Gaslighting for God: A Satirical Guide to Save Yourself from Spiritual Narcissists, where she exposes how...
by Katherine Spearing | Faith Deconstruction, Trauma Recovery
In the South where I grew up, most people have a reverence for God and the church, even if they don’t actively participate in Christian traditions. While some everyday Christians may have thought my family was strange when the daughters weren’t allowed to go to...
by Trey Ferguson | Faith Deconstruction, Identity
People tried to tell me about seminary. I even heard pastors jokingly refer to it as “cemetery.” Looking back, I’m not sure if they were actually joking, or if it was one of those “laugh to keep from crying” situations. But I’d been warned: seminary wouldn’t be gentle...
by David Morris | Faith Deconstruction, Lake Drive Books News, Mental Health
Spiritual abuse often doesn’t arrive as a lightning strike. More often, it seeps in quietly—through a thousand tiny wounds that don’t look like much to outsiders but leave lasting, sometimes lifelong scars. In A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts, Katherine Spearing names this...
by Brandon Flanery | Faith Deconstruction, Identity, LGBTQ
I used to think the Holy Spirit was stalking me. No, really. Every time I tried to leave the church—or God, or the slightly culty Bible college that served fish sticks as a “cultural experience”—I’d feel this twinge of guilt that smelled suspiciously like youth group...
by Cynthia Davis | Faith Deconstruction, LGBTQ
We are now over 100 days into an administration seemingly hellbent on chipping away at our personal freedoms along with democracy itself. It has been exhausting to witness the whirlwind of policies targeting queer people, women, immigrants, and people of color....
