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Belief, Family, God, Leaving Christianity

If fear is at the foundation of your Christian experience, where does that leave you when you leave?

Christina Buckland | November 28, 2023

After I had my first article published, where I talked openly about my sister’s addictions and my understanding of death and God, I felt conflicting emotions. I felt tall and strong for being honest with myself to write and own my experiences and have them published under my own name. I felt an unfamiliar feeling of self-clarification from sharing my feelings that would undoubtedly hurt my family’s feelings, but doing it anyway for the sake of my own growth. I…

Belief, Family, God, Leaving Christianity

Embracing the New Age practices I was taught to fear

Christina Buckland | October 18, 2022

New Age was a big, scary word that covered a range of practices that, I was told, was a highway line to hell. Literally. Yoga, reiki, crystals, meditation, clairvoyance. I was taught that these practices could make you feel really good, but it was a trick.

Christianity, Family, Leaving Christianity

Parents, Here’s What Not To Do When Your Child Leaves Christianity

Ruby Claire | September 15, 2021

My Christian parents who would be so heartbroken if I was to walk away from church. Yet I did and here’s what I learnt when a kid leaves the church.

Christianity, Church, Family

I Grew up in the Church and Then I Grew out of It

Grace Lacoba | November 19, 2018

Imagine this: a room full of people chanting the same prayer that has been chanted for decades in hundreds of other rooms just like this one. There’s a girl sitting in the back. She’s about 14. She’s wearing a dress from Jay Jays and she has straightened hair. The year is 2011. The sound of these voices are alien to her; they sound like possessed zombies or something. She doesn’t know why she’s here, and not in an existential, totalitarian…

Family

If fear is at the foundation of your Christian experience, where does that leave you when you leave?

Embracing the New Age practices I was taught to fear

Parents, Here’s What Not To Do When Your Child Leaves Christianity

I Grew up in the Church and Then I Grew out of It

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