Katy Hershberger recalls the way her decade at Christian summer camp both shaped and condemned her views of faith and girlhood.
Christianity
Posted inHighlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
A Moral Center In a Decayed Ethical Universe
“The best thing I did was simply respect him.”
Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Story
Land Not Theirs
Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Story
The Redemption of MS-13
Danny Gold investigates the movement converting El Salvador’s gang members into born-again Christians.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Muscle Memory: A Case History
While healing from a back injury, Mariam I. Williams learns to let go of the ways she has been taught to mistrust her body.
Posted inCulture, Quotes
A Woman’s Search for Salvation, Love, and Family
A woman searches for love and belonging inside and outside of the Christian church.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Hole in My Soul
A personal essay in which Sara Eckel recalls surprising her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Story, Unapologetic Women
Grown-Woman Theology
Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Casting Out Satan and Your Religious Upbringing
How one woman struggled to make sense of the exorcisms she witnessed as a child.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
A Muslim, a Christian, and a Baby Named “God”
Rachel Pieh Jones, a Christian American living in Djibouti, reflects on her friendship with a Muslim woman there, and the more universal aspects of faith.