Astrid TwistTo the 2 or so people who maybe noticed recent silence on The Zealot’s Daughter —I’ve been trying to get politically caught up over the last month, and instead of spending my time writing have been spending time reading…Aug 17, 2017Aug 17, 2017
Astrid TwistinThe Zealot’s DaughterWhy I Can’t Stand the Current Witch TrendWhen I was maybe nine or ten, my parents took my family to a healing and revival church event. We watched as the healer called congregants…Jul 20, 20173Jul 20, 20173
Astrid TwistinThe Zealot’s DaughterIt’s Time to Stop Associating Christianity with Conservatism.Ever since the Moral Majority came to prominence in the 1970s, Christianity and Conservatism have been packaged together, as if…Jun 29, 2017Jun 29, 2017
Astrid TwistinThe Zealot’s DaughterUnlearning Christian Concepts: SelflessnessFor most of my life, I thought of selfishness as the root of all evils. It was the hardest sin to forgive and the most harmful to the world…Jun 26, 2017Jun 26, 2017
Astrid TwistinThe Zealot’s DaughterGag Round Up: Christians on Women’s ModestyToo Much Skin In which a holier-than-thou author assumes that a mom is trying to make her daughter look like a prostitute because the…Jun 22, 20171Jun 22, 20171
Astrid TwistinThe Zealot’s DaughterChristians are Weird About Sex. In Lots of Ways.If Christianity didn’t treat sex bizarrely at every turn, maybe many of us wouldn’t turn away. There are certain truths that lie inside of…Jun 19, 2017Jun 19, 2017
Astrid TwistinThe Zealot’s DaughterFinding my footing: Re-discovering God after leaving Christianity, Pt. 2While writing Part 1 of this pair of blog posts, I focused on some of the themes in re-discovery that I feel the most positive about. I…Jun 15, 2017Jun 15, 2017
Astrid TwistinThe Zealot’s DaughterFinding my footing: Re-discovering God after leaving Christianity, Pt. 1The thing about finding God after leaving Christianity is, there’s no one to tell you where to look. Without the Bible, there is no rule…Jun 12, 20171Jun 12, 20171
Astrid TwistinThe Zealot’s DaughterGag Round-Up: Christians on MasturbationMasturbation: Is it Wrong? In which the author implies that a woman choosing to masturbate instead of have sex when she is angry at her…Jun 8, 2017Jun 8, 2017
Astrid TwistinThe Zealot’s DaughterChristians Don’t Talk about Masturbation, and it Sucks.Whenever my sister and I got The Talk, when I was 11 or 12, there was no mention of masturbation. Later, when I read the word in a…Jun 5, 2017Jun 5, 2017
