tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503399848376770420.post3664335009088253469..comments2024-03-08T08:25:01.699-06:00Comments on Heresy in the Heartland: Pressing the Pause ButtonJerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14097266657351609701noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503399848376770420.post-86533737474897430962014-03-28T23:07:52.721-05:002014-03-28T23:07:52.721-05:00Thank you for posting! I would so enjoy a chat ove...Thank you for posting! I would so enjoy a chat over coffee, too. But connecting by reading each other's words is second-best!Jerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14097266657351609701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503399848376770420.post-61969769701020209112014-03-28T07:42:18.814-05:002014-03-28T07:42:18.814-05:00Okay--let's see how hungry the Internet is tod...Okay--let's see how hungry the Internet is today. :)<br /><br />I can only imagine how difficult it must be to write about these experiences--I've been out of fundamentalism for about 13 years now, and I'm still avoiding writing about it--much less for a public audience. <br /><br />At risk of sounding creepy, I'd so much love to chat with you over a cup of coffee sometime. I wasn't raised in ATI, but my parents were very influenced by IBLP which led us to homeschool in the 1980s and 90s (this on top of being Amish Mennonite). I'd leave the seminars salivating over the videos of the young people in navy and white, envying their perfect, well-ordered lives while I felt bound to the chaos in our home. (Somehow IBLP's teaching on orderliness never caught on with my Dad like the teaching on authority did.) But it took a stint in a second form of fundamentalism to realize that the issue was not being legalistic about the right things, but it was legalism itself that was the problem.<br /><br />But, here's the thing--and I may have mentioned this in another comment some time ago--I was raised in PA and then my family moved to western Oklahoma in the mid-1990s. I lived in OKC from 1997-2001 and worked at Mardel. So there are elements of your story that parallel my own. I'm still in the Midwest, but now I'm a feminist academic, still trying to process fundamentalism, but now as an academic project. <br /><br />Sorry about the epistle, but it felt even more creepy to be so engrossed in your writing here and not do a little self-revelation of my own.Naomihttp://www.dynamicstasis.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503399848376770420.post-70038513409770400132014-03-24T23:05:06.378-05:002014-03-24T23:05:06.378-05:00dumpy white guy will wait. thanks for telling us....dumpy white guy will wait. thanks for telling us. <br />DougAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com