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A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

Shabop Shalom

This demand for universal access to the Divine teachings seems to be a polemic against other ancient cultures in which only a small circle of priests had access to sacred knowledge.

Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)

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David BLATNER • Le Judaïsme Pour les Nuls (French Edition)

The reason the teenage girls in our youth group were forced to put on baggy T-shirts wasn’t because Jesus cares that much about bra straps. It was because the leaders at that camp had confused nineteenth-century ideas about women’s purity (not to mention male culpability) with what it meant to be a Christian woman.

Beth Allison Barr • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

I'm thinking a ton about how to make a religion out of a truth-seeking community. An individualist religion, where people are trying to navigate and model the world together, rather than accepting past ancestors facts just out of faith.

Plexus

Church

A place of comfort, healing, change and challenge~

Lael Johnson • 32 cards

Spiritual

Hannah • 1 card

Dunham, as you might guess, is not much given to religious impulses, but she is quietly fascinated by Karr’s faith, her association with this guy “Jesus.” So Dunham asks: “What’s it like to be a person who thinks and cares about Jesus and has religion in your life but hangs out with the New York literati?” Karr tries to defuse some mistaken impress