Religion Dispatches
In ‘Pure,’ Klein tells the stories of women wrestling with anxiety, sexual dysfunction, crises of religious identity, and even a kind of religious-based PTSD.
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One critic was like, “Rachel Held Evans bases her Biblical interpretation on all the feels”… So I took a picture of my endnotes, which are lengthy, and sent them to him with the note, “All the feels, page 1,” “All the feels, page 2″…
Read MoreGratitude operates like resentment. When we find ourselves in a position of owing—and people in a democratic society always owe something to other people—we may become vulnerable to control.
Read MoreMany think they’re mocking nuns, but parody or camp and mockery are often very different things. In fact, one of the easiest ways to move a Sister to tears is to tell her that nuns from other orders (Roman Catholic, Buddhist, etc.) recognize and respect her work.
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