I love so much of Elizabeth Esther's writing because what she says fits my experiences in unhealthy churches. I preordered her book Spiritual Sobriety: Stumbling back to faith when good religion goes bad in spring of last year, around the same time that I interviewed her on my blog. Recently I re-read my copy before … Continue reading Book Review: Spiritual Sobriety by Elizabeth Esther
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I got this book from a giveaway over at SpiritualAbuse.org a couple of summers ago, when I was blogging about leaving fundamentalism. Stolen Innocence is Elissa Wall's memoir of leaving the fundamentalist Mormon church (FLDS) as an adult. She was told to marry one of her cousins when she was only 14. Elissa gives a good history … Continue reading Book review: Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
Last spring, I shared that I'd watched all three seasons of Orange is the New Black in about two weeks. When season four released in June, I did the bingewatching thing that Americans do nowadays and went home on Friday night finished the season by late Saturday evening (with a few hours of sleep in … Continue reading How Season 4 of Orange is the New Black basically recapped 2016
A couple of summers ago, I checked out a few non-fiction books from the library. One of them was The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes by Dean Hamer, a molecular biologist who studies behavioral genetics. His premise was basically this: you can take this research either as proof that God exists … Continue reading Book Review: The God Gene by Dean Hamer
In the last two weeks, I watched all three seasons of Orange is the New Black on Netflix. A friend is loaning me her subscription, so this was my first taste of bingewatching and the addictive power of streaming. I loved watching the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt series last year, and I can't wait for season … Continue reading Bingewatching Orange is the New Black
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