Sense of Belonging and Liminal Identity

Liminal: of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition.

The first challenge when physically leaving a fundamentalist world is perhaps that of integration into the “other” world, the formless universe void of…

Emotional Negligence

In a world of white and black, only a limited range of feelings is detectable. Binary feelings: joy and sorrow, peace and anger, wholeness and emptiness. Ambiguous feelings are conveniently mislabeled and forced into one category or another: if you’re not happy, then you must be sad, and if…

Bleak and White

The erasing powers of binary thinking. In a defiant gesture it both gives life to all your greatest expectations and fills everything else with dread, terror, and eventually, emptiness. Yes, emptiness is a positive agent in the fundamentalist mind: it’s like the waters of an ocean surrounding an…

About this collection

Fundamentalism can be a choice, fundamentalism can be a trap. For me it’s been first a choice, and then a trap. Or maybe it’s been a trap all the time. I was born and raised in an Evangelical Christian environment. Then I converted to Christianity, or Evangelical Christianity I should say…