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“Debra’s story is one of psychological trauma wrought by a rigid, fundamentalist upbringing, and her struggle of triumph over those abuses by recognizing true kindness and learning to trust her inner voice. A definite, worthwhile read for anyone who has questioned any belief system that indoctrinates hate as love.”
—M.N. Thoms, Descendant of Fundamentalists
They called it love. It was control.
It took a lifetime to transcend
that lie.
In this unflinching memoir, Debra Baker traces her path out of Protestant fundamentalism, from a childhood paralyzed by guilt and contradiction, to a hard-won understanding of authentic kindness and her own voice. This account is her reckoning with—and her liberation from—authority figures who hid their drive to dominate in an unrelenting deity whose wrath was theirs to dispense, and whose mercy was theirs to withhold. What she found on the other side was not the absence of the divine, but the presence of a loving, faithful God who’d been there for her all along.
“This inspirational book offers hope that by having just a kernel of a vision of what God's love, and the love on earth between each other, can bring hope, one demoralized soul to another.”
—Juliana Adams, BSN, MSN, MA
Author of The Joy of Nursing: Reclaiming Our Nobility
“A definite, worthwhile read for anyone who has questioned any belief system that indoctrinates hate as love.”
— M.N. Thoms
Descendant of Fundamentalists