Bek
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Evangelical parenting in one sentence:
“What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
Tara Westover, "Educated"
“What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
Tara Westover, "Educated"
July 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Evangelical parenting in one sentence:
“What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
Tara Westover, "Educated"
“What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
Tara Westover, "Educated"
Last night while I worked late in his living room he made me nachos and brought me flowers and then took me for margaritas at a friend’s. I am the luckiest.
July 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Last night while I worked late in his living room he made me nachos and brought me flowers and then took me for margaritas at a friend’s. I am the luckiest.
The absolute stomach drop every time I receive an email from someone with the same first name as one my former pastors.
July 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The absolute stomach drop every time I receive an email from someone with the same first name as one my former pastors.
Saw a billboard that says JESUS IS NOT GOD and honestly it’s a refreshing change of pace.
June 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Saw a billboard that says JESUS IS NOT GOD and honestly it’s a refreshing change of pace.
Christians have rebranded crime as “sins” to be forgiven and I’m super over it. Straight to jail.
This is a Michael Tait subtweet.
This is a Michael Tait subtweet.
June 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Christians have rebranded crime as “sins” to be forgiven and I’m super over it. Straight to jail.
This is a Michael Tait subtweet.
This is a Michael Tait subtweet.
I’ve left churches due to abuse twice. The first was far more dramatic and obviously abusive, but the most recent has been far more traumatic. It’s been six months and finding words is hard. The world feels more scary and less safe; I don’t know how to begin to be apart of the church anymore.
June 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I’ve left churches due to abuse twice. The first was far more dramatic and obviously abusive, but the most recent has been far more traumatic. It’s been six months and finding words is hard. The world feels more scary and less safe; I don’t know how to begin to be apart of the church anymore.
A question I am asking myself is how to honor my parents while they actively and repugnantly dishonor and shred the entirety of the faith they taught me. These are already the most painful four years.
May 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A question I am asking myself is how to honor my parents while they actively and repugnantly dishonor and shred the entirety of the faith they taught me. These are already the most painful four years.
I had a dream that my parent put a tariff on our relationship, which is honestly a hilariously appropriate analogy of what it’s like to be the child of MAGA parents. Subconscious is working hard.
April 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I had a dream that my parent put a tariff on our relationship, which is honestly a hilariously appropriate analogy of what it’s like to be the child of MAGA parents. Subconscious is working hard.
Something I think about a lot is how many MAGA Christian parents are “against abortion” but so very easily discard their living children for the sake of their political ideology. It’s just a different kind of child sacrifice.
April 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Something I think about a lot is how many MAGA Christian parents are “against abortion” but so very easily discard their living children for the sake of their political ideology. It’s just a different kind of child sacrifice.
so much joy in my one wild and precious life this week
April 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
so much joy in my one wild and precious life this week
I’m think my parents think I’m a “liberal” (their word) because I moved to Chicago. I think this actually happened under their nose in my teens, when I spent hours in my college English professor’s office. I was a tiny baby, attending while in high school, but she welcomed me and my naivety warmly.
March 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I’m think my parents think I’m a “liberal” (their word) because I moved to Chicago. I think this actually happened under their nose in my teens, when I spent hours in my college English professor’s office. I was a tiny baby, attending while in high school, but she welcomed me and my naivety warmly.
remembering when little rebekah, circa 2015, earnestly wrote out pages of proverbs illustrating why trump was a bad candidate for president
March 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
remembering when little rebekah, circa 2015, earnestly wrote out pages of proverbs illustrating why trump was a bad candidate for president
This presidency (such a nice word, too nice) is an exercise in, “how many bad things do we need to see before we have the moral courage to call it Very, Very Bad?”
Looking for such courage in my fellow Americans every dang day. Courage is contagious, may it be ever more so.
Looking for such courage in my fellow Americans every dang day. Courage is contagious, may it be ever more so.
March 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This presidency (such a nice word, too nice) is an exercise in, “how many bad things do we need to see before we have the moral courage to call it Very, Very Bad?”
Looking for such courage in my fellow Americans every dang day. Courage is contagious, may it be ever more so.
Looking for such courage in my fellow Americans every dang day. Courage is contagious, may it be ever more so.
I’ve faced the death of a thousand dreams at the hands of the Church, relationships brutalized at every turn, and… in the aftermath, I’ve never not felt endlessly loved and fully free. God is near to the brokenhearted.
February 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I’ve faced the death of a thousand dreams at the hands of the Church, relationships brutalized at every turn, and… in the aftermath, I’ve never not felt endlessly loved and fully free. God is near to the brokenhearted.
I put my glasses in the washing machine today. I realized and rescued them in time. By in time, I mean before they hit the spin cycle.
Time for a mental health day?
Time for a mental health day?
February 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I put my glasses in the washing machine today. I realized and rescued them in time. By in time, I mean before they hit the spin cycle.
Time for a mental health day?
Time for a mental health day?
I really believe the Church won’t ever be a witness to the goodness of God the way we are so clearly called to until we stop throwing our own brothers and sisters out in the cold. And in the name of Jesus no less. The Church is meant to be a refuge for the broken, not a place of savage breaking.
February 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I really believe the Church won’t ever be a witness to the goodness of God the way we are so clearly called to until we stop throwing our own brothers and sisters out in the cold. And in the name of Jesus no less. The Church is meant to be a refuge for the broken, not a place of savage breaking.
Team Canada!!!!!!! 🇨🇦 So, so happy.
February 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Team Canada!!!!!!! 🇨🇦 So, so happy.
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Deception becomes systemic when we use our collective power to protect what we desire to be true rather than face the destruction and the pain that accompanies the actual truth.
February 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Deception becomes systemic when we use our collective power to protect what we desire to be true rather than face the destruction and the pain that accompanies the actual truth.
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We must not assume that our family, church, community, country, or organization is always right just because the people in it use the right words. We must never agree to “protect” the name of God by covering ungodliness.
February 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We must not assume that our family, church, community, country, or organization is always right just because the people in it use the right words. We must never agree to “protect” the name of God by covering ungodliness.
Obviously cheering for Team Canada tonight as a form of political protest. This is only made easier given about half of the @tampabaylightning.bsky.social plus Jon Cooper are repping Canada. 🇨🇦⚡️
February 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Obviously cheering for Team Canada tonight as a form of political protest. This is only made easier given about half of the @tampabaylightning.bsky.social plus Jon Cooper are repping Canada. 🇨🇦⚡️
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When we use the word spiritual to describe abuse, we are talking about using that which is sacred—including God’s Word—to control, misuse, deceive, or damage a person created in His image. The pairing of those two words is diabolical.
February 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
When we use the word spiritual to describe abuse, we are talking about using that which is sacred—including God’s Word—to control, misuse, deceive, or damage a person created in His image. The pairing of those two words is diabolical.
It never occurred to me growing up that the “great falling away” I was always warned about would take place *within* the Church.
February 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It never occurred to me growing up that the “great falling away” I was always warned about would take place *within* the Church.
dispatches from the dead of winter
January 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
dispatches from the dead of winter
Being forced to leave a church is some of the worst pain. Staying or leaving, every path is pain. I will never understand why churches are so brutal to their own.
January 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Being forced to leave a church is some of the worst pain. Staying or leaving, every path is pain. I will never understand why churches are so brutal to their own.
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When the church shows “grace” to an abuser in response to a few approved words and some tears, we have done added damage to the victim, risked the safety of others, and left the abuser with a disease that will rot their soul.
January 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
When the church shows “grace” to an abuser in response to a few approved words and some tears, we have done added damage to the victim, risked the safety of others, and left the abuser with a disease that will rot their soul.