Category: Blog Posts
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A Cult of Personality – Or Is That Cult Pseudo-Personality?
by Clare Heath-McIvor (originally published March 2023) As we dipped our toes into the still-fresh waters of 2023, I took the time to do a little thinking. The past seven years had seemed so strange as to be fictitious, outshone only by the twenty-five-odd years that went before them. Although…
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Right-Wing Anti-Feminism
by Clare-Heath-McIvor Why female alt-right advocates aren’t the voice of balanced progress, but of patriarchy in a skirt I’ve been dodging this topic for a while. It’s been too hard, too deeply conditioned, too close to the core of who I was and who I’m evolving out of. That, of…
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C-PTSD & Wellness
By Cait West & Shari A Smith A common mental health issue that so many of us who have survived religious trauma and abuse is a condition called Complex Post-Traumatic Disorder (C-PTSD), a similar condition to the more famous PTSD. For someone who has experienced a singular traumatic incident like…
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Evangelicals, Head Injuries, And The End Times
Clare Heath-McIvor here! A few people have asked me this same question of late: do Evangelicals really believe we are living in the end times? Short answer? Dude. Yes. Long answer? Let’s go. I’m speaking here about Evangelical Christianity as an aggregate. Not an individual church. If you look, logically,…
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How Spiritual Abuse Leads To Mistrust Of Self
Content warning: discussion of child sexual abuse material, conversion therapy, and various kinds of spiritual & mental abuse. In episode two, I (Shari), Cait, and Clare talk a little bit about the difficult in trusting one’s choices after surviving spiritual abuse. I would be in situations where I would have…