Jun 17, 2019
I Let Go of My Faith When I Came Out—But I Still Believe in Jennifer Knapp
What was I getting out shame, anyway? So I walked away from it all: going to church, reading scripture, prayer, even the Christian music I loved so much.
Jeanna Kadlec's writing has appeared in Catapult, Narratively, Autostraddle, Electric Literature, Nylon, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is working on a memoir. You can find her on Twitter: @jeannakadlec.
What was I getting out shame, anyway? So I walked away from it all: going to church, reading scripture, prayer, even the Christian music I loved so much.
I don’t want to take time away from your book, she said, but the book could wait. My writing was always there. She might not be.
