A reading path

I’m untangling faith, empire, shame, and what I was taught was holy.

For examining religion, obedience, goodness, authority, bodies, empire, and what remains when inherited certainty starts coming apart.

This path goes deeper into the paid archive.

1. Start here

   “Jesus Is Lord” Is a Battle Cry Against Empire, Not For It

   2025Free

   Early Christianity as resistance to Rome, and why decolonizing God matters now.

   Read on Substack → “Jesus Is Lord” Is a Battle Cry Against Empire, Not For It (opens in a new tab)

2. Easter Monday, The Angel, and the Stories We Carry

   2026Free

   Resurrection imagery before Christianity, and how patriarchy moved the feminine from source to support.

   Read on Substack → Easter Monday, The Angel, and the Stories We Carry (opens in a new tab)

3. Christian Empire: The Original Blueprint for Global Supremacy

   2025Paid

   From persecuted movement to imperial religion: Constantine, Nicaea, and the calendar.

   Read on Substack → Christian Empire: The Original Blueprint for Global Supremacy (opens in a new tab)

4. When Shame Was Made Holy

   2025Paid

   How shame and inherited guilt sustain hierarchy.

   Read on Substack → When Shame Was Made Holy (opens in a new tab)

5. Colonizing Bodies

   2025Paid

   Christianity’s control over gender, sexuality, and the body.

   Read on Substack → Colonizing Bodies (opens in a new tab)

6. How Thought-Terminating Clichés Serve Empire, Not Healing

   2025Paid

   Scripture and familiar phrases as tools of silence.

   Read on Substack → How Thought-Terminating Clichés Serve Empire, Not Healing (opens in a new tab)

7. “God Doesn’t Give You More Than You Can Handle” — Or Does He?

   2025PaidAudio

   Endurance is not proof of fairness. Faith, grief, and permission to break.

   Read on Substack → “God Doesn’t Give You More Than You Can Handle” — Or Does He? (opens in a new tab)