helping those wounded by wolves
When you finally regain control of your life's story from abusers who have held the pen for so long, it can take time to get the courage to write again, to say in effect: "You are no longer the author of my story and I do not need your approval to write the next chapter." …
Continue reading "Flashpoint: Part Two of My Life Inside the Narrowgate Cult at Messiah College"
More insomniac poetry by yours truly: Patriarchy Malarkey by Megan Benninger Life was grand With my band of Likeminded sisters. We homemade and mothered And remained under cover Of headship. An umbrella they’d tell us, For our safety and joy, God’s design for your kind, You’re a girl, not a boy. Of course you are …
My daughter is a student at Messiah College (soon to be Messiah University) in South Central Pennsylvania. She writes articles for the campus newspaper, and has access to their news archives. One day, she sent us pictures from her iPhone of an article dated December 1st, 1995. The title, "Walking the Straight and Narrow Gate," …
Continue reading "25 Years Later: My Life Inside the Narrowgate Cult at Messiah College (part one)"
“If you don’t take action now, you’ll settle for nothing later.” -Zach DeLeRoche, lead singer of Rage Against the Machine. In the fifth book of the Harry Potter series, Harry is one of the few people alive who knows a terrible secret: The enemy of all that is good in the world, Lord Voldemort - …
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A little late night PTSD poetry: Baptist Cult-ure by Megan Benninger My voice, my light, It’s your kryptonite. You love the dark, You love your privacy. Tell them not to gossip, Don’t destroy unity, One-on-one meetings, “Follow Matthew 18.” Your deceit, your game As you manipulated me, Gave you power and fame, But it was …
November, 2018: IntrospectionSo I've been doing quite a bit of introspection and research on the topic of abuse, and the ripple effect on the pool into which the stone of abuse has been cast. If I'm honest with myself, I've been doing research into this topic all of my life, since my earliest experiences with …
"Apart from the addictive nature of our new digital way of connecting, it does not seem to satisfy our deep-seated need for true human contact. Instead what it seems to have spawned is the illusion of social connection via a medium that has our dopamine receptors on perpetual high alert as we anticipate, like Pavlovian …
Continue reading "The Great Divorce (with apologies to CS Lewis)"
I have to confess, this blog has been difficult to write. In the many weeks of writing this blog, there has been a continual struggle between two extremes - one side of me messily bleeding all over the place, the other side of me keeping it sterile and clinical, as if you were reading a …
Continue reading "Spirit Hacking: The Power of the 8th Layer (Part Two)"
It's been quite a while since I've blogged here, I do hope you will forgive me. It has been one doozy of a year. Today's blog series will be a little more personal than normal. It will also possibly be much more useful to you than a technical discourse on blockchain or routers or Internet …
Once upon a time my Facebook feed was filled with many Pretty pics of family and witty memes aplenty. But then I shared a point of view that set my friends afire; I hardly could conceive the controversy that transpired. I labored to explain my thoughts and never to offend. Alas, a few could not decipher what …
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