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But even in my re-telling this wanting-to-be-forgotten story<\/a>, it’s revealing to find the persistent theme: God gave me good roots. Grant was my ally. He reassured and loved on me. My brother, too, was a reliable friend — honest but gentle. My dad was also a rock — ever the cheerleader.<\/p>\n

But who was there reading, listening, comforting, reminding, dragging, and even nagging me all the way through? Who remembered the deep-down-all-of-me before <\/em>the seeds of that abusive ideology took root?<\/p>\n

My dear mother.<\/p>\n

We were talking the other day. Mom had read my church<\/a>‘s newsletter from this month and had noticed their support for CEF<\/a>. My church and my parents’ new church<\/a>, too, sponsor Good News Clubs<\/a> at nearby public elementary schools. They even send kids to C.Y.I.A<\/a> — CEF’s training for summer missionaries.<\/p>\n

I was in C.Y.I.A. back in the day with no small amount of skepticism and criticism from the fundamentalists around us. My parents ignored it and so I did too. It had been a terrific experience for me. Instead of taking it all in, I was giving back<\/em>. And it was when I was 16-year-old C.Y.I.A. summer missionary while teaching a little disabled child in my 5-Day Club that Jesus loved her <\/em>that I really, truly realized (again) that Jesus loved me too.<\/p>\n

Mom has said more than once in this mutual transition which moved us out <\/em>of fundamentalism: “After all this time, I finally don’t feel at constant odds with my church’s philosophy. What took us so long<\/em>?”<\/p>\n

I guess we really never were fundamentalists, were we? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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