Religious trauma is trauma
- S2E15
- 54:45
- March 2nd 2022
By sharing his own personal experience with religious trauma and evolution towards leaving fundamentalism behind, Andrew Pledger was fired from his campus job and expelled from Bob Jones University.
Join our conversation as Andrew shares how his art gave him a unique opportunity to explore how religious trauma has impact his life and how he started his own journey of healing, spiritual growth, and listening to God to become his own hero.
Resource List:
- This I know: A Simple Biblical Defence for LGBTQ Christians, by Jim Dant
- My Gay Church Days: A memoir of a closeted evangelical pastor who eventually had enough, by George Azar
- The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents, by Lindsay C. Gibson
- Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion, by Marlene Winell
- Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms, by Matthias Roberts
- Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma, by Teresa B Pasquale
- First Baptist Church, Greenville SC
- ChurchClarity
This Little Light of Mine - LGBTQ, Christianity, religious trauma, mental health
This Little Light of Mine is an LGBTQ+ tale of terror (growing up as a closeted Gay Christian in the Evangelical church) that led to trauma (cPTSD, religious trauma, spiritual abuse, sexual abuse, addiction) to what I intend to become triumph.
Join me on my healing and recovery journey towards mental health, spiritual health and emotional health as I find my voice by sharing what happened in my life as a Queer Christian where I was taught that I was not allowed to love.