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"The function of whiteness is to evade accountability".
See what author Tamice Spencer-Helms means by that in this clip talking about their book:
Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd
by Tamice Spencer-Helms
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/faith-...
See what author Tamice Spencer-Helms means by that in this clip talking about their book:
Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd
by Tamice Spencer-Helms
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/faith-...
December 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"The function of whiteness is to evade accountability".
See what author Tamice Spencer-Helms means by that in this clip talking about their book:
Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd
by Tamice Spencer-Helms
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/faith-...
See what author Tamice Spencer-Helms means by that in this clip talking about their book:
Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd
by Tamice Spencer-Helms
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/faith-...
From "Tiger in a Lifeboat: Discovering India, Deconstructing Faith, and Deciding to Trust Again" by Lauren Cibene.
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
From "Tiger in a Lifeboat: Discovering India, Deconstructing Faith, and Deciding to Trust Again" by Lauren Cibene.
Want to be one of the first to read this book?
We could REALLY use your help in launching this book into he world!
Click here to learn more: www.lakedrivebooks.com/2025/12/09/b...
Together, let's find healthier spiritual spaces. Register today!
We could REALLY use your help in launching this book into he world!
Click here to learn more: www.lakedrivebooks.com/2025/12/09/b...
Together, let's find healthier spiritual spaces. Register today!
Want to Be First to Read Becky Garrison's Gaslighting for God?
Drawing on decades of reporting and offering insightful commentary, Garrison arms readers with the mindset to spot the spiritual con
www.lakedrivebooks.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Want to be one of the first to read this book?
We could REALLY use your help in launching this book into he world!
Click here to learn more: www.lakedrivebooks.com/2025/12/09/b...
Together, let's find healthier spiritual spaces. Register today!
We could REALLY use your help in launching this book into he world!
Click here to learn more: www.lakedrivebooks.com/2025/12/09/b...
Together, let's find healthier spiritual spaces. Register today!
Here's Tears of Eden Founder Katherine Spearing naming and defining spiritual abuse.
You'll be informed, moved, and encouraged by her "A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: The Subtle, Insidious Nature of Spiritual Abuse and Life on the Other Side."
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/a-thou...
You'll be informed, moved, and encouraged by her "A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: The Subtle, Insidious Nature of Spiritual Abuse and Life on the Other Side."
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/a-thou...
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Here's Tears of Eden Founder Katherine Spearing naming and defining spiritual abuse.
You'll be informed, moved, and encouraged by her "A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: The Subtle, Insidious Nature of Spiritual Abuse and Life on the Other Side."
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/a-thou...
You'll be informed, moved, and encouraged by her "A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: The Subtle, Insidious Nature of Spiritual Abuse and Life on the Other Side."
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/a-thou...
Author Katherine Spearing, with her new book A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: The Subtle, Insidious Nature of Spiritual Abuse and Life on the Other Side, empowers those of us who have suffered at the hands of controlling, patriarchal religious figures.
open.spotify.com/episode/09M4...
open.spotify.com/episode/09M4...
A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: Spiritual Abuse And Life on the Other Side (with Katherine Spearing)
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December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Author Katherine Spearing, with her new book A Thousand Tiny Paper Cuts: The Subtle, Insidious Nature of Spiritual Abuse and Life on the Other Side, empowers those of us who have suffered at the hands of controlling, patriarchal religious figures.
open.spotify.com/episode/09M4...
open.spotify.com/episode/09M4...
From Amen? Questions for a God I Hope Exists, by Julia Rocchi
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
From Amen? Questions for a God I Hope Exists, by Julia Rocchi
Just like trees carry hidden root diseases, we carry the roots of our own stories—sometimes stretching back generations. Healing begins when we’re willing to dig deep.
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Deep in the Soil of Our Lives: A Quiet Reflection on Intergenerational Trauma
Guest Post from Caroline Beidler
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Just like trees carry hidden root diseases, we carry the roots of our own stories—sometimes stretching back generations. Healing begins when we’re willing to dig deep.
open.substack.com/pub/lakedriv...
open.substack.com/pub/lakedriv...
When bogged down by theology and doctrine that wouldn't make room for Nia Chiaramonte, she has, all her life, found God and what is sacred about life in the woods.
Catch her story about this in her recent book, "I Hardly Knew Me" www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/i-hard...
Catch her story about this in her recent book, "I Hardly Knew Me" www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/i-hard...
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
When bogged down by theology and doctrine that wouldn't make room for Nia Chiaramonte, she has, all her life, found God and what is sacred about life in the woods.
Catch her story about this in her recent book, "I Hardly Knew Me" www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/i-hard...
Catch her story about this in her recent book, "I Hardly Knew Me" www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/i-hard...
Transgender woman, author and Love in the Face Founder @niac.bsky.social from her book "I Hardly Knew Me."
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Transgender woman, author and Love in the Face Founder @niac.bsky.social from her book "I Hardly Knew Me."
Reposted by Lake Drive Books
Authors, publishing & exvangelical friends: we covered a lot in this recent Publishing Disrupted podcast with author
@marlataviano.bsky.social.
You can get the summary and video on our Substack post but listen wherever you get podcasts.
open.substack.com/pub/publishi...
@marlataviano.bsky.social.
You can get the summary and video on our Substack post but listen wherever you get podcasts.
open.substack.com/pub/publishi...
Author Marla Taviano on How to Build a Career on Frog and Toad Art, Five Years of Daily Posts, and the Spirit of Abundance
And what do you do when the system spits you out?
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Authors, publishing & exvangelical friends: we covered a lot in this recent Publishing Disrupted podcast with author
@marlataviano.bsky.social.
You can get the summary and video on our Substack post but listen wherever you get podcasts.
open.substack.com/pub/publishi...
@marlataviano.bsky.social.
You can get the summary and video on our Substack post but listen wherever you get podcasts.
open.substack.com/pub/publishi...
In Tiger in a Lifeboat, @laurencibene.bsky.social takes us on a personal and courageous journey: when everything she once trusted and believed in fell apart, she booked a one-way ticket to India.
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open.substack.com/pub/lakedriv...
The Person I Met in India Was Me
Guest Post from Lauren Cibene
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In Tiger in a Lifeboat, @laurencibene.bsky.social takes us on a personal and courageous journey: when everything she once trusted and believed in fell apart, she booked a one-way ticket to India.
open.substack.com/pub/lakedriv...
open.substack.com/pub/lakedriv...
From Intersexion: A Story of Faith, Identity, and Authenticity, by Cynthia Vacca Davis
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
From Intersexion: A Story of Faith, Identity, and Authenticity, by Cynthia Vacca Davis
Asked who they are today, after experiences since writing "Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd," theoactivist Tamice Spencer-Helms says they are a collection of experiences with others not function on shame. What a vision!
@tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social
@tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Asked who they are today, after experiences since writing "Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd," theoactivist Tamice Spencer-Helms says they are a collection of experiences with others not function on shame. What a vision!
@tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social
@tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social
From "Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University" by @rsokamoto.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
From "Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University" by @rsokamoto.bsky.social
Here's Kate Meyer discussing how spirituality and religion can sometimes be two different things, and that to navigate the grief process, we must recognize that there's something spiritual to grief that our faith community might not understand.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Here's Kate Meyer discussing how spirituality and religion can sometimes be two different things, and that to navigate the grief process, we must recognize that there's something spiritual to grief that our faith community might not understand.
From "jaded" by @marlataviano.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
From "jaded" by @marlataviano.bsky.social
Freeze-dried Skittles! A wonderful metaphor for understanding a transgender transition.
Watch the full video on our YouTube channel (link in bio) and learn more about Nia's book, "I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening."
Watch the full video on our YouTube channel (link in bio) and learn more about Nia's book, "I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening."
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Freeze-dried Skittles! A wonderful metaphor for understanding a transgender transition.
Watch the full video on our YouTube channel (link in bio) and learn more about Nia's book, "I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening."
Watch the full video on our YouTube channel (link in bio) and learn more about Nia's book, "I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening."
“You can have self-worth WITHOUT relying on anyone else to give it to you?!”
New on the Lake Drive Substack: a powerful guest post from Nia Chiaramonte, author of "I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening."
lakedrivebooks.substack.com/p/reclaiming...
New on the Lake Drive Substack: a powerful guest post from Nia Chiaramonte, author of "I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening."
lakedrivebooks.substack.com/p/reclaiming...
Reclaiming My Body After Religion: How I Found Self-Worth Beyond the Church
Guest Post from Nia Chiaramonte
lakedrivebooks.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“You can have self-worth WITHOUT relying on anyone else to give it to you?!”
New on the Lake Drive Substack: a powerful guest post from Nia Chiaramonte, author of "I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening."
lakedrivebooks.substack.com/p/reclaiming...
New on the Lake Drive Substack: a powerful guest post from Nia Chiaramonte, author of "I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening."
lakedrivebooks.substack.com/p/reclaiming...
"According to the Public Religion Research Institute, 40% of women ages 18-29 are religiously unaffiliated — a percentage that for the first time outpaces the unaffiliated rate for young men, which has remained at about 35%."
religionnews.com/2025/10/28/e...
religionnews.com/2025/10/28/e...
‘Exvangelical’ women are leaving their churches. But is it decline or renewal?
(RNS) — Dissenting former evangelical Christian women are forging a path different from those who have left the church in the decades-long decline in institutional faith.
religionnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"According to the Public Religion Research Institute, 40% of women ages 18-29 are religiously unaffiliated — a percentage that for the first time outpaces the unaffiliated rate for young men, which has remained at about 35%."
religionnews.com/2025/10/28/e...
religionnews.com/2025/10/28/e...
From "Baptistland" by
@christabrown.bsky.social
@christabrown.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
From "Baptistland" by
@christabrown.bsky.social
@christabrown.bsky.social
From "Faith Unleavened" by @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
From "Faith Unleavened" by @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social
In "Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd," theoactivist Tamice Spencer-Helms tells the story of what happens after the collapse of certainty — and something truer begins to rise. @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/faith-...
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/faith-...
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
In "Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd," theoactivist Tamice Spencer-Helms tells the story of what happens after the collapse of certainty — and something truer begins to rise. @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/faith-...
www.lakedrivebooks.com/books/faith-...
Here's author Kate Meyer talking about the central concept of her new book, "Navigating the Waves of Grief: Healing Prompts and Reflections to Move You Forward".
What a wonderful way to talk about emotions, and to understand big emotions like grief.
#grief #griefjournal #griefjourney
What a wonderful way to talk about emotions, and to understand big emotions like grief.
#grief #griefjournal #griefjourney
October 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Here's author Kate Meyer talking about the central concept of her new book, "Navigating the Waves of Grief: Healing Prompts and Reflections to Move You Forward".
What a wonderful way to talk about emotions, and to understand big emotions like grief.
#grief #griefjournal #griefjourney
What a wonderful way to talk about emotions, and to understand big emotions like grief.
#grief #griefjournal #griefjourney
From "Cradled in the Arms of Compassion" by Frank Rogers Jr.
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
From "Cradled in the Arms of Compassion" by Frank Rogers Jr.
Reposted by Lake Drive Books
Dizzy and I had a surreal day together in late-80s Boston, and the Kennedys were involved...
Details in my memoir HOLY DISOBEDIENCE, out with @lakedrivebooks.bsky.social in March 2026.
Details in my memoir HOLY DISOBEDIENCE, out with @lakedrivebooks.bsky.social in March 2026.
Happy birthday, Dizzy Gillespie! It was super fun seeing him on the Muppet Show in 1980. His solo is awesome, and Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem were on fire that night. This was the bongo player’s only gig with them.
#music #musicsky #happybirthday #jazzmusic #jazzsky
youtu.be/aY_jO7Z7MfI?...
#music #musicsky #happybirthday #jazzmusic #jazzsky
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The Muppet Show - 413: Dizzy Gillespie - “St. Louis Blues” (1980)
YouTube video by The Muppet Show Vault
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Dizzy and I had a surreal day together in late-80s Boston, and the Kennedys were involved...
Details in my memoir HOLY DISOBEDIENCE, out with @lakedrivebooks.bsky.social in March 2026.
Details in my memoir HOLY DISOBEDIENCE, out with @lakedrivebooks.bsky.social in March 2026.