HeyJaredChelsea Kim Long
chelseakimlong.com || Writing at the intersections of faith reconstruction, the political and theological implications of living in a female body, and embodied spiritual practice.
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Womb Love and the Divine Feminine: My Conversation with Matt Nash (opens the original)
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I joined my friend Matt Nash of The Shape of the Soul for a Substack Live about Faithfully Dissident Daughters, and it was one of those conversations that reminded me why I wrote this book.I shared how my faith deconstruction collided with a traumatic journey into motherhood, and how I couldn't find a book about a woman who wrestled with both and still chose to stay. That's really the heart of it: I needed to know I could keep God without abandoning myself.We talked about what it means to be fai
Talking Rage, Faith, and the Body with Gemma Hartley (opens the original)
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Today I sat down with my friend Gemma Hartley for a Substack Live celebrating the launch of her new book, No One Loves an Angry Woman: An Exvangelical Coming-of-Rage Story (click to order).Gemma is the one who helped me reshape my book proposal into what became Faithfully Dissident Daughters, so having our books come out within weeks of each other has been a fun gift.We started our conversation talking about the messages we absorbed as girls in purity culture: our bodies were liabilities, we wer
What’s Actually Happening in Your Brain When You Deconstruct (opens the original)
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I got to go live with Dr. Shaleen Kendrick, who has a doctorate in applied neuroscience and is, as far as either of us knows, the only trained feminist theologian working in neurotheology. Her book, Your Three Brains: The Neuroscience and Spirituality of Wholeness, comes out in December, and I’ve been eating up an early copy.We used a page the beginning of Chapter 10 of my book, Faithfully Dissident Daughters, as her jumping-off point, the part where I write that for all the things Christianity
On Launch Week, New Moons, and the Long Road to a Book Deal (opens the original)
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I chatted here Substack Live with Sara Billups on Friday, at the end of my book launch week.She asked how I was feeling, and the honest answer is: really good. I have a lifetime of anticipating things and then feeling that letdown, so I’ve gotten good at thinking ahead about a day like pub day. How might I feel? What do I want to do? How do I support myself? It worked.What I didn’t plan on is how creative I feel. Both times I gave birth (to my biological children) I had this almost manic creativ
Priscilla's name is first (opens the original)
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