Cameron Dezen Hammon reflects on her frustrations as a Christian music minister for the terminally ill, unable to heal a cancer patient she cared for, and struggling to be compassionate at her belligerent Jewish father’s bedside.
Christianity
Posted inNonfiction
Losing My Religion at Christian Camp
Katy Hershberger recalls the way her decade at Christian summer camp both shaped and condemned her views of faith and girlhood.
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.