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Tell Me My Story? (opens the original)
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Years ago when I was mid-psychotic break, somewhere before the involuntary institutionalization, but well after the hallucinations had begun, I created a narrative to help me grapple with my current circumstance. If it hadn’t been for my hurtling headlong into the heights of delusion, I might have noticed the inner wisdom shining through. I’ll save what really happened for another time and place, but I want to tell you the fiction my mind conjured that reveals something deep about my own heart,
The Mystics Would Like a Word Chapter 2 (opens the original)
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What was purity culture like for you?It’s a question I turn over a lot these days, and it seems I’m not the only one. Take a quick lap around my Substack and you’ll find scads of great humans exploring the legacy the nineties (and surrounding decades, but the nineties were so . . . incredible) left us. To name a few, you can find , , and —and loads more— exploring the messaging that came through loud and clear to those of in white evangelical spaces during the time of kissing
The Mystics Would Like a Word Intro & Chapter 1 (opens the original)
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If you grew up anywhere adjacent to fundamentalist and/or evangelical Christianity, you’re probably no stranger to the automatic aversion many of us have to phrases like “trust your gut” or “to thine own self be true.” We Friday Feminarians have had to take a long hard look at why we’re so afraid to admit we Know something, and Teresa de Ávila (or as she liked to be called, Teresa de Jesús) gives us loads of help here.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/ima
The Mystics Would Like a Word: Meet the Author!! (opens the original)
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OK, hold onto your hats, this is going to be a wild ride!Today and I were joined by the deeply relatable author of The Mystics Would Like a Word, a title that grabbed my attention a couple of years ago and sits on my greatest-of-all-time (I am too old to say GOAT and mean it) bookshelf. Meeting her on the screen was a confirmation of what I already felt reading her book—this woman is a kindred soul!I could go on for days about why, but seriously just watch this conversation and see what I mean a
Kenosis of the Liver (opens the original)
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Years ago, I sat in the Mother’s Room at the back of my church, sobbing. Separated by a wall of glass, I could see and hear the service unfold, desperately hoping the soundproof walls would keep the other congregants from being distracted by the cries coming from my newborn and me.There in the dimly light space, I traced my daughter’s damp cheeks and watched as my own tears mix with hers.She was going to be alright, I knew, as soon as the milk filled her belly and took her into dreamland.<a clas
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