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The Psychological Architecture of the Jehovah’s Witness System, Part 1

Most people think of religion primarily in terms of belief; what a group teaches about God, morality, salvation, or the end of the world. From a psychological perspective, beliefs are…

The Perfection Trap: Mormonism, Performance and the Fear of Letting Go

A Culture of Performance For many raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, life begins with certainty. Answers are offered before the questions even form. The path…

The Silence Was Not Holy: Healing From Clerical Abuse

Reflections on Clerical Abuse and the Cost of Betrayed Trust There are wounds that bleed openly. And then there are wounds that hide in plain sight, silenced not by accident,…

Speaking the Truth When Truth Feels Dishonest and Lies Feel Like Home

There is a silence that rests heavy over those raised inside systems of religious absolutism. It is not the silence of peace, nor of contemplative reverence, but a hush born…

We Know Better Than You: Life Inside the Jehovah’s Witnesses

We Know Better Than You Life Inside “Kingdom Hall” …and After There’s a phrase that runs quietly through the culture of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It’s rarely spoken outright, and yet…

The Cost of Being Good: Purity Culture and Christian Girls

Purity Culture: the Lost Voices of Christian Girls and Women There are girls who never really get to be girls. They smile in Sunday school. They memorize verses. They learn…

The Psychological Architecture of the Jehovah’s Witness System, Part 1

The Perfection Trap: Mormonism, Performance and the Fear of Letting Go

The Silence Was Not Holy: Healing From Clerical Abuse

Speaking the Truth When Truth Feels Dishonest and Lies Feel Like Home

We Know Better Than You: Life Inside the Jehovah’s Witnesses

The Cost of Being Good: Purity Culture and Christian Girls

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