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Kate Bowler on Shame, Productivity, and Living with Chronic Pain

Death, Sex & Money

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What I Learned as a Girl About the Body

When I first started attending a Mennonite Bible camp that was heavily influenced by evangelicalism, my body was pretty neutral. And then I went to the summer camp where I got a very strict list of rules for what, how, how girls were to dress. So it was quite, um, I didn't realize that spiritual authority and bodily embarrassment were going to be introduced to me. It was the sense of a thousand small indications that, that I was unacceptable in some way.

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