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Seasonal Gender Dysphoria and the Normalization of Wondering

November 4, 2021 by Laura Jean Leave a Comment

Gender has felt uselessly complicated my entire life. Sometimes I think that's because I'm a non-conforming woman in a patriarchal world, and it's hard to figure out how to be a woman when you're … [Read more...] about Seasonal Gender Dysphoria and the Normalization of Wondering

Hell, No: Why Grace is Coming for Us All

October 17, 2020 by Laura Jean Leave a Comment

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. Julian of Norwich I don't believe in hell anymore. I don't think believing in hell makes us very good at loving … [Read more...] about Hell, No: Why Grace is Coming for Us All

This is a Table For All Who Are Hungry (If You Are Hungry, Come)

February 21, 2020 by Laura Jean Leave a Comment

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, … [Read more...] about This is a Table For All Who Are Hungry (If You Are Hungry, Come)

Dark Nights of the Soul: Surviving Silence With the God Who Weeps

October 18, 2019 by Laura Jean Leave a Comment

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the … [Read more...] about Dark Nights of the Soul: Surviving Silence With the God Who Weeps

Why I Suck at Flirting: And Other Stories from Purity Culture

September 28, 2019 by Laura Jean Leave a Comment

My very first memory of adolescence - the odd time when we move from childhood to being teenagers - was the day that Mrs. Emerson came over for iced tea to tell my mother that she was concerned, … [Read more...] about Why I Suck at Flirting: And Other Stories from Purity Culture

The Spiritual Practice of Noticing Absolutely Everything

September 13, 2019 by Laura Jean Leave a Comment

I had been walking across Italy for three weeks. On that particular Wednesday, it was damp and grey and the every half mile seemed to take fourteen years. I was exhausted and protein deficient, ready … [Read more...] about The Spiritual Practice of Noticing Absolutely Everything

The Gospel of Sunday Night Sillies

August 30, 2019 by Laura Jean Leave a Comment

I am inclined towards deadly seriousness and if I don't keep an eye on it, it will rapidly outgrow it's cuteness and like a baby demogorgon, it will swiftly become menacing and large enough to devour … [Read more...] about The Gospel of Sunday Night Sillies

The Gospel of Beloved Smallness

August 9, 2019 by Laura Jean Leave a Comment

"You want my tried and true maxim on preaching?" Professor Smith said, beginning to draw a diagram on the whiteboard. "You want my one rule about preaching? "Say one true thing about God, then … [Read more...] about The Gospel of Beloved Smallness

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Laura Jean is an Atlanta based writer, itinerant chaplain, and amateur mystic, learning to live in the in-between places of queerness, loving Jesus, and rediscovering the Bible after fundamentalism.

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