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Monthly Archives: May 2015

red tent revival returns 17-21 may

Today I heard a woman named Kristin Sweeting Morelli say something that rocked my world. “Shame can only live in darkness.” She said it in the context of people — of women in particular — keeping to themselves the things they were most ashamed of about themselves and their experiences, whether they were at fault or not. Shame doesn’t belong only to the miscreants, the cheaters, the liars, the politicians. Everyone carries shame about something in their lives, and in our world today, women feel shame surrounding so much. Shame for being fat. For being old. For being educated. For…