Faith Bogdan

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Seven Types of Loneliness: One of These is Not Like the Others

December 31, 2018

Google “Types of Loneliness” and you’ll find there are at least six or seven that the have been identified, with slightly varying lists and labels. Here is a list I’ve compiled and put in my own words. Which one(s) have … Continue reading →

I Once Lived Inside a Christian Bubble

October 10, 2018

I remember when I first realized I lived in the “Christian Bubble”—that insular, sterile place where everyone was just like me. I was already in my thirties, and a friend had recommended I read Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz; I … Continue reading →

My Name is Faith and My Middle Name is Reason

August 1, 2016

I am currently reading Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, an expose of the ongoing atrocities committed by men of the FLDS (Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints) toward the women and children under their rule. It is a harrowing look … Continue reading →

What Self-Harm and Passover Have in Common

April 22, 2016

This post contains graphic images.     If you or someone you know are locking yourself in the bathroom and making little cuts on your sweet little thighs and arms with a razor, and, like the rest of the rising … Continue reading →

It’s (Not) a Wonderful Life

June 29, 2013

  Recently someone greeted me with congratulations on the published book and said, “That’s wonderful! Your whole life seems wonderful.” I assured her I am far from wonderful,  and wondered how many others are under the same delusion. I’ve had such a … Continue reading →