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January 2024

January 10, 2024
What's Wrong with Prayer? ‎           The first prayer I ever...
January 07, 2024
Stop, Drop, and Heal Seven or eight years ago, we began what most people call...
January 05, 2024
Usurping Women’s Voices from the Patriarchy Sherri Bothwell was introduced to Christianity as an 11-year-old...
January 03, 2024
Trauma and the Pastor’s Wife Laura Forehand is a third-grade teacher and former pastor’s wife....
January 02, 2024
The Value of Compassion I still remember where I was when terrorists attacked the World...
January 01, 2024
Good Questions – Part 2 – Get Rid of Satan?   “A prudent question is...
January 01, 2024
Reclaiming Married Sex from Purity Culture Megan Benninger has survived spiritual abuse in a variety...

December 2023

December 29, 2023
How to Speak Women Susan Cottrell is an international speaker whose TEDx talk has 1.6...
December 26, 2023
Why Worship is NOT Necessary Worship was important to me in fundamentalist, evangelicalism. My congregations...
December 25, 2023
Trauma and the Black Community Nikki G. is a Life Coach and Advanced Certified Trauma...
December 22, 2023
Deconstructing the Holidays Sometime during this Christmas season, I commented on a post from one...
December 22, 2023
The Intersection of Patriarchy and Abuse Ashley Easter is a trained victim advocate, an author,...
December 19, 2023
New Lenses - My Story - Karl Forehand The first time I remember understanding something...
December 18, 2023
As A Woman with Paula Stone Williams   I was lucky to create a Leaning...
December 15, 2023
Advocates for Healing and Change with Janyne McConnoughey I was lucky to create a Leaning...
December 13, 2023
What I Learned from Women about Religious Trauma I was a pastor for almost 20...
December 11, 2023
Tending the Wounds of Religious Trauma I was lucky to create a conference called Leaning...
December 06, 2023
The Alpha Male Grifters and What Women Want More About two years ago, I had...
December 04, 2023
The 5-Why and Church Harm In the 1930s, the Japanese industrialist Sakichi Toyoda (the inventor...

November 2023

November 19, 2023
Leaning Forward is the title of a book by Karl and Laura Forehand about moving...
November 15, 2023
Small Men in Power Yesterday, two fights broke out in Congress in the United States....
November 12, 2023
Advocating for Survivors of Religious Trauma If we are fortunate, occasionally, we have situations in...

October 2023

October 31, 2023
I Didn't Want to Deconstruct As some of you may know, my beliefs and affiliations...
October 18, 2023
The Implications of a Monarchy Even though I have moved beyond Christianity and have doubts...
October 16, 2023
Disappointment in the Desert Laura and I have deemed our deconstruction journey as a journey...
October 09, 2023
AI-Generated (I was just curious what it would say). Why Religion Can Be Harmful generated...
October 06, 2023
Keep Asking Questions My deconstruction started with a simple thought that God could handle my...
October 03, 2023
Volunteer Labor and Religion I remember vividly that day! It was a Saturday afternoon in...
October 01, 2023
The Intuitive Journey People always ask me, “OK, so we know what you are against,...

September 2023

September 24, 2023
Beginning Your Inner Work Several years ago, after spending about 20 years in organized religion...
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