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Shining After the Shadows of Christian Fundamentalism

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The best way to understand Mike Johnson isn’t wi

The best way to understand Mike Johnson isn’t with his digital footprint, that’s for sure. It’s disturbingly scrubbed clean, so clean it shines. His talking points are like a record stuck on repeat. But there are clues and bread crumbs, especially for anyone who’s lived inside their vision for America.

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I realized I don’t buy into the beliefs portraye

I realized I don’t buy into the beliefs portrayed in horror movies wjth a religious component anymore because I’m not scared of contrived horror. So this weekend I snuggled in and watched a few movies that a few years ago, would’ve given me nightmares.

This is a reflection of faith deconstruction and writing my book (A Well-Trained Wife is available for preorder. Visit tialevings.com/book with my link in bio @tialevingswriter). Distinguishing true religious horror from storytelling and fiction ushered in a new freedom. I’m much more frightened by Christian Nationalism, Mike Johnson’s theocracy, and the abuse coverups in the church (most recent is IHOPKC) than a “demon.” Who needs Satan when we have Doug Wilson calling for schools to burn and teachers to hang? (See @examiningmoscow )

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I gave the new video feature on Substack a try wit

I gave the new video feature on Substack a try with the AI voice they provide. This is an excerpt from the piece I wrote on how Speaker Mike Johnson and Covenant Eyes founder Ron Dehaas both chose minor aged boys to be their cornography accountability partners. The Insta post about that essay is generating a pulsing convo around 🌽 and accountability, as is the accompanying reel. If you’ve ever watched one of my reels and wished I’d covered more than 90 seconds allows, you can often find those topics explored more thoroughly in my column, The Anti-Fundamentalist.

You can find The Anti-Fundamentalist at TiaLevings.substack.com, link in bio @tialevingswriter

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Something fundamentalists do when they go outside

Something fundamentalists do when they go outside into the mainstream world is mention something that normal to them, without realizing how it sounds to non-fundamentalist ears.

So, when Mike Johnson said on stage that his corn accountability partner is his minor son, people gasped. Mike said it like it was a good thing, even bragging on his son’s clean record (without mentioning his own.)

But the rest of us know:

🌽 Adults should have adult accountability

🌽 Covenant Eyes is spy software that assumes problems exist where they may not

🌽 It surveils and reports in alignment with authoritarian control systems

🌽 shame based assumptions and vilification replace healthy development, discernment, and dialog

🌽 It’s crappy and frustrating and results in encouraging work arounds and dishonesty (my review)

🌽 Adults involving children in their personal behaviors is grooming and a red flag for abuse

Covenant Eyes is a reflection of the man who paid his teenaged “accountability partner” to make it. It’s disturbing foundation begs questions that haven’t been asked. That CE has been an Inc. 5000 fastest growing company and is in place with large evangelical organizations, all the way to our transforming congress, should cause concern.

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While I can’t wait to hold this in hardcover wit

While I can’t wait to hold this in hardcover with its lovely dust jacket and thick spine, I know so many of you have asked about the Audible. And it’s now available for preorder!!

I know it feels like a long wait but it’s just about a pregnancy now 🤣. Appropriate for a “book baby.” And you do much to support an author when you preorder—publishers use those numbers for many different decisions. Ordering now is very helpful.

Also-don’t forget Behind the Book, my subscription here. It’s where I share additional content about the book, the story that it tells, and the pub process. It’s my personal IG feed for everything that doesn’t fit in the fundie feed well.

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Jim Bob Duggar thought he could invite TV cameras

Jim Bob Duggar thought he could invite TV cameras into his house and abuses and neglects wouldn’t be discovered. Mike Johnson flaunted his arrangement from the stage. Ron Dehaas told his story on his corporate origin website. These men are so accustomed to power and control without question that they’d be surprised to hear anyone had an issue with what they said.

As one commenter said in defense, “It’s just two guys holding each other accountable.”

That’s how Christian Patriarchy slowly changes the climate. Accountability denotes equality. But a 17 year old minor and his boss or a 17 year old minor and his father not equals. Nor is a husband and wife, such as when Anna Duggar was expected to be Josh’s “accountability partner.” The power dynamic is unbalanced and exploits the other.

Read more at tialevings.substack.com at The Anti-Fundamentalist. Link in bio @tialevingswriter

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Jim Bob and Michelle sought to become Model Famili

Jim Bob and Michelle sought to become Model Families in the IBLP. That’s the name given to the prestigious families who best demonstrated Bill Gothard’s teachings and had earned his favor. More than that, Jim Bob aspired to evangelize the world to his lifestyle through a medium he wouldn’t allow in his own home: TV.

I wrote about the lessons I learned from his behavior on The Anti-Fundamentalist, my Substack, at TiaLevings.Substack.com, link in bio @tialevingswriter

My book, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy, is available for pre-order anywhere books are sold.

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Good Christian girls are trained to wait—on answ

Good Christian girls are trained to wait—on answers, attention, “God’s best,” provision, a hero, a savior, the return of Christ. But it was learning to take action that saved my life—both in the dire conflict of my marriage and in the day to day since. It’s a re-learning that takes time.

How did I do it? The process is today’s essay in the Density of Ideas, my weekly personal post on The-Antifundamentalist on Substack.

To read—visit TiaLevings.Substack.com link in bio @tialevingswriter for The Anti-Fundamentalist

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Cult glaze, Mormon stare, Manson girls’ look—i

Cult glaze, Mormon stare, Manson girls’ look—it goes by a lot of names. We evangelical fundies called it our countenance and the more dissociated we could appear, the more pleasing we were.

Edit- I won’t tag the Collins account. A quick search will lead you there. Her children exhibit so many concerning symptoms and behaviors and she baits reality TV attention

I break this subject down further at The Anti-Fundamentalist, link in bio @tialevingswriter (tialevings.substack.com)

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It’s time to check that fruit! Check out our (@tialevingswriter and @drlauraeanderson ) fun new project—THE WISE JEZEBELS! …a podcast where we talk about headlines and pop culture with religious roots, discuss the wisdom we’ve learned since leaving religion, answer your questions and share how we are navigating life post-religion.

Our first episode drops on September 19, 2023 wherever you listen to podcasts!

But before that, we want to hear from you! What are the questions you have for us? Drop your questions or topics you want us to discuss as a comment below and we may answer them on the pod! Stay fresh betches!

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