Substacks recommended by D.L. Mayfield | Healing is My Special Interest

Recommended by D.L. Mayfield

My name is NJ. I’m a fundamentalist turned atheist who's trying to use their voice to bring light to the harm in Christian fundamentalism.

STRONGWILLED

By Krispin Mayfield

Reclaiming autonomy and exploring the long-terms impacts of religious authoritarian parenting.

D.L. and Krispin Mayfield are creating a community to unpack the long-term impacts of Religious Authoritarian Parenting.

- D.L. Mayfield

Axis Mundi Media

By Brad Onishi

Research-Based Podcast Network - publishing work designed to safeguard democracy from religious nationalisms, authoritaranism, and right-wing extremism. Visit www.axismundi.us

The Bugbear Dispatch

By Chrissy Stroop

As a transgender American woman in a time of moral panic, Chrissy Stroop is one of society's current "bugbears." Here she publishes weekly musings connecting her reading and other cultural consumption to her thoughts on American society and more.

Birds Before the Storm

By Margaret Killjoy

Individual and community preparedness. Memoirs of an anarchist life. Reflections on history.

All The Threads

By Kandi Zeller

Finding creative spiritual practices after religious trauma. Weaving whimsy and intention into everyday life.

New Means

By Joshua

Writing that zooms out. New Means discusses politics in the broadest possible ways, from our neighborhoods to our workplaces to our religious lives to organizing to the ways we collectively think.

The SWAJ Good News

By Brad Onishi

Religion, Politics, and Culture

Just Above My Head

By Richie X

This is where I come to talk about all things God, Autism, Queer, & Black

Richie X is on a journey of writing about their neurodivergence and leaving fundamentalism behind. Incredible insights and writing!

- D.L. Mayfield

A Glitch in the Good Enough

By Aly Prades

Reflections on faith, self-compassion, and OCD recovery

Eternally Existential

By Hannah B. Makes

A space to sit in the threshold of paradox, pondering the parts of Humaning that are both brutal and beautiful.

writing wholefarted

By Marla Taviano

A short original poem every Thursday. Paid subscribers get juicy, petty long form posts every Tuesday and Friday.

Julian's Note

By Julian Davis Reid

Weaving together Christian faith, Blackness, music, and rest so that our kites may catch wind.

Poetic, musical reflections on rest and care from a Christian perspective while the world falls apart.

- D.L. Mayfield

Musings From A Broken Heart

By Robert the contemplative

Theology, poetry, reflections, and restful meditations from a Black man in process

A Gentle Landing

By Rose J. Percy

Poetic playground for restless dreamers.

Gorgeous, thoughtful prose and poems. Watching other people bloom as resistance helps me envision a brighter future for us all.

- D.L. Mayfield

The View From Down Here

By Lucy Webster

What's it *really* like to be disabled? How can you fight ableism? A newsletter aiming to demystify disability through personal stories and observations, from journalist and card-carrying disabled woman Lucy Webster