![]() ![]() I also secreted away books with erotic scenes - Flowers in the Attic, a smattering of Danielle Steel novels. I felt like my faith and my budding feminism were wrestling each other. I wondered if the weird, queasy feeling around my molars was God speaking to me.īut at the same time, I struggled with a battery of overly simplistic religious interpretations of gender and sex that came from the denominations and texts I bumped into during my adolescence. I read the Bible and books about staying pure. I attended Bible study, befriended the evangelical kids from my school and listened to the Christian rap group dcTalk. How?Īs a teenager, I believed in God, but I didn't know what he wanted from me. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Crimson Petal and the White Author Michel Faber ![]()
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