Five Harmful Religious Ideas I Had to Unlearn about Sex
This post originally appeared two years ago on Removing the Fig Leaf. I was born a Pentecostal. My background was not as extreme as Kim Davis’s Pentecostalism, but I did grow up on Jimmy Swaggart and “That Thing†and homophobia and overt misogyny and stories of demon sex spirits imprinting pornographic images on my mind […]
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3 Romantic Bible Stories
Around Valentine’s Day, Facebook thought I might enjoy this HuffPost article, entitled “Romance in the Bible?â€. (Question mark in original.) I once knew its author, back when I myself also worshipped the One True God. This is why Facebook thought I wanted to read it. As it turns out, I was interested, but not in […]
Living as Genuine Me
Two years ago, on August 1, 2014, I wrote a page-long statement in my private journal, “Who Am I Today?” It contained paragraphs on religion, politics, personal values, sexuality, and personality. I was trying to sort through what I believed, how I identified, what I valued, what I felt and thought, to put this all […]