#exvangelical — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #exvangelical, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@rainbowrodeomag/117322658781824950
Grateful to write another album review for @rainbowrodeomag. As a fellow #exvangelical queer, I connected quite deeply with this new Maddie Zahm record, which comes out tomorrow. :)
https://musicians.today/@rainbowrodeom[email protected]/117322659009960800
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REVIEW: @arendleejessurun reviews Everything All the Time -- the stunning new queer exvangelical album from Maddie Zahm, which teaches us that living is an art, not a dogma.
https://rainbowrodeomag.com/p/29b707f8-0cc9-4d74-ae21-ba631ef83597/
#QueerCountry #Americana #CountryMusic #RootsMusic #LGBTQMusic #QueerMusic #LGBTQMusician #lgbtq #exvangelical
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Talking with a friend about damning and damaging systems within the American Church™️
I've noticed that a lot with southern parents. They get really reactive after subjecting their kids to the people and institutions they react against. The important lesson isn't learned. They just assume it was personal.
It's not, primarily (there's always a personal victim bearing personal cost).
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What readers think of my books:
1 star. “Woke agenda”
1 star. “LGBQAEIOU”
1 star. “Lesbian lifestyle”
1 star. “Contains swears”Find all my books at https://whitehartfiction.co.uk/
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What you’ll find in my books:
Si Clarke – Sci-fi without the pew-pew 🚀
Elliott Hay – Women who k!ll 🔪
Casey Shepherd – Queer exvangelicals ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
All three – Dogs 🐶 -
Hi. Have we met? I’m sci-fi author Si Clarke. I’m also crime fiction author Elliott Hay. And now I’m adding a new pen name to my arsenal. Casey Shepherd writes about queer people finding love as they recover from evangelicalism and purity culture.
I’m a Canadian living in the UK.
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This started as notes for my defense in a hypothetical conversation with my dad, but I've fleshed it out as a blog post. #dispensationalism #creationism #fundamentalism #exvangelical
https://blog.devlord.io/2026/09/20/suffering-servant-creation-dispensationalism-mythicism/
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Biblical Literalism leads to some odd contortions. I look at one of them in today's short, Good God, Bad God.
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> There is so much goodness when you leave, of course. That makes it all worth it. I have found that the integrity of embracing reality is much better than even the most comforting lie. But often, freedom feels a lot like loneliness. A lot like being on an island.
> You mourn what was thought to be true but never was and never will be. This grief is normal and healthy, if you befriend it. It's the evidence of how true you were then and how true you are now. A god may not have shown up, but your grief is proof that you were always fully there.
_Gospel of Lies_ by Promise Backlund #atheism #exvangelical
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I wrote a short thing about religious trauma and hymns.
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Study shows similarities between cult and trafficking survivors.
"While high-control groups and sex trafficking are usually treated as distinct social and legal problems, this comparative framework establishes that their underlying mechanisms of coercive control are functionally equivalent. Identifying these deep structural similarities addresses a historical gap in academic literature, providing a foundation for cross-disciplinary intervention models, updated legal definitions of psychological captivity, and unified trauma treatment strategies for survivors of both settings."
Via the ICSA.
#AbuseCulture #CoerciveControl #ReligiousTrauma #exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ICSA
https://icsatoday.substack.com/p/study-shows-psychological-similarities
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Promise Backlund (@eve_wasframed) is a former worship leader turned counter-apologist. I first heard of her on Seth Andrews’s podcast. She wrote a book called Gospel of Lies (the title sounds harsher than it actually reads).
There’s one chapter where she discusses the impact that music, architecture, mood lighting, and large gatherings can have in producing feelings of transcendence and euphoria for the human “spirit.” She writes of going to her first secular rock concert and finding it just like church. “My belief that God was as involved with a rock concert as he was with a worship service turned out to be closer to the truth than I realized. It turns out God was equally uninvolved. But my confusion was by evangelical design, as there is little difference between their worship services and a live concert. Music is already manipulative by nature; that’s why we listen to it.”
She doesn’t mean that musical manipulation is necessarily a bad thing–we listen to music to help us feel good; it’s like art or literature, where the creator of the piece is trying to evoke certain thoughts or feelings to the audience or reader. But you need to be aware that it’s human-made. Otherwise, “these emotional moments can convince you that of course there’s a god…”
“Music’s ability to impact our emotions, physical state and behavior has been widely studied and universally recognized.” Look at the minor keys for the “Imperial March” in The Empire Strikes Back or the Emperor’s theme in Return of the Jedi and contrast that with the uplifting major key of the Rebel fanfare. That’s John Williams who did that, not God.
As a worship musician myself for many years, I have experienced the manipulation from both sides. If a pastor wanted to really turn on the tears during a prayer service, he would give me the nod and I’d gradually shape the improvisational droning of my violin into an upwelling theme that sounded like something out of the Braveheart soundtrack. I didn’t see myself as doing manipulation in that moment, though; I thought I was just being “used by God.”
Find her book here: https://medialabbooks.com/products/9781964487557_gospel-of-lies #atheism #exvangelical
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Can I interest you in a little exvangelical novelette, featuring opposites attract, a bi man, a woman discovering her inner strength, a second chance at love, found family, nineties vibes, and Canadianisms?
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Free Indeed: Tim & Darlene (Queering Edmonton #0.5) by Casey Shepherd is up for pre-order.
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Happy #BandcampFriday! If you're a fan of #indie #folk and protest music, I hope you'll like my latest album. You can download this single, my nonbinary, queer anthem, for free. My entire back catalog is free/name-your-price as well.
https://arendleejessurun.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-way-i-am-2
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Flamy Grant – CHURCH (2024, US)
After flying the 1001OA flag at half-mast for a few days in honour of Dolly, I felt the natural next stop on our journey through the epic Fedi-sourced catalogue of must-hear albums would be number 1191 on The List, submitted by switch. This is the second studio album from "God's favorite drag queen", Appalachia's Flamy Grant. With a name honouring my personal first music love (CCM goddess Amy Grant) and therapeutic "shame-slaying" Americana songs that offer an inclusive and affirming haven for queer exvangelicals, this one was an absolute joy to spotlight.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2026/09/01/flamy-grant-church-2024-us/
Want to skip straight to the music? Here's the Bandcamp: https://flamygrant.bandcamp.com/album/church-deluxe-edition
Happy listening! 🌈
#FlamyGrant #Americana #Folk #QueerMusic #LGBTQ #exvangelical #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Sometime back, maybe 5 years ago, I came across the phrase #exvangelical . It resonated with me as I was exploring #orthodoxy and some of my deeply held convictions were fraying at the edges. Just a few days ago, on seeing the term in someone's bio, i realize I have fully walked that path now. I am thankful for my time in #protestant land as an #evangelical but I am glad to have joined the ancient church.
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Other authors are out there “protecting clean fiction” and trying to “make smut unthinkable”.
Me? Nah. Purity culture needs to die in a fire. Clearly now’s the time to start writing sweary, spicy books about queer people recovering from toxic purity culture.
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Getting told that Christian performers died because they lost “The Lord’s Protection” did a number on me.
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Do you remember the book & Windows CD-ROM "The Bible Code" came out or was your family not as wildly evangelical pentecostal as mine?
:blobcatthink: 😅https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Code_(book)
BTW, it was published by Simon & fucking Schuster. Not some niche Christian press.
#Evangelical #EXvangelical #bible #TheBibleCode #TTJ #Christian #ChristianNationalism
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BLOOD MONEY GOSPEL wants * you* to rescue Jesus for Lucifer.
Limited time only: Three ways to live in the book forever! (Audio recordings & other alternative awards negotiable.) https://ko-fi.com/revcasey/shop
Read the full thread to preview the #exvangelical J-splatter #TTRPG fever dream coming soon!
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Happy #BandcampFriday to all who observe it. I offer my latest album for your consideration. :) Digital downloads are $8, CDs are $15. And you can download this single, my little queer anthem, for free.
https://arendleejessurun.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-way-i-am-2
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RE: https://mstdn.party/@mcspocky/117011267732384614
Apparently this pastor paid less attention in Sunday school than I did. They really need to read the red letters & I think that's the perfect insult for #MAGA #Evangelicals
Signed,
An #EXvangelical that "got it" -
@theogrin It has been my lived experience over decades.
I wish it was common knowledge, but I'm not sure of much of anything these days.
"The guilty dog barks the loudest" comes to mind, though.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@lnsy_dev/117011847340339614
Umm...I actually read the red words.
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."
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Everybody's excited to get to the torture scenes in the film version of this wholesome religious story.
(No shade on Mormon Land. They're just reporting, and their podcast is somewhat nuanced.)
#exmo #exmormon #exvie #exvangelical #ReligiousTrauma #DeathCult
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Do you want to read about an ex-vangelical and his drag queen boyfriend solving a m*rder in space?
Of course you do.
M*rder on Donut Station is available now on my website!
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Let me say it clearly: the #USA is not never was, wasnt designed to be and never shall be a #christian nation.
#DougWilson is a violent man and a liar.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hVMXKUxMK1g?is=btF75RNwtp1TdQl7
#ChristianNationalism is this nation's greatest threat.#deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news
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#GatesOfHell #pearlygates do not protect us from the stupidity of #Obituary #exvangelical #christianity #salvation.
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When #Obituary #exvangelical #christianity #salvation leaves us, #death #dust #graveyard #celebrationoflife is not far away.