Faithfully Dissident Daughters

You can have yourself and keep God too.

This book gives you the theology — and the permission — to stop choosing between your faith and your full humanity.

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What if the version of God you were given was only half the picture?

For centuries, the church has handed women a narrow script: be smaller, be quieter, be certain. And for many of us, that script didn't just limit our faith — it broke it.

Faithfully Dissident Daughters invites anyone who has felt unseen or diminished by their faith tradition to reimagine and reclaim what it means to love God and embrace themselves. This isn't a book about leaving the faith. It's about finally being allowed to enter it fully — body, emotion, intuition, and all.

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  • If you love God but have started to wonder if the version of faith you were handed was missing something.
  • If you've sat in a pew — or walked away from one — and felt the specific grief of a faith that didn't have room for all of you.
  • If your life experiences cracked something open that the church didn't prepare you for.
  • If you've been told your questions are dangerous, your intuition is untrustworthy, and your job is to submit — and some part of you has never quite believed it.
  • If you're not sure you can call yourself a Christian anymore, but you're not sure you can let go either.

This book won't hand you a new set of rules to follow. It will do something harder and better — it will ask you to trust yourself again. You’ll look back at the faith you were given and finally have words for what was missing. You’ll find the Divine in places the church told you not to look: in your body, your doubt, your emotions, and your own power. The tradition won't look the same by the end. Neither will you. But for the first time in a long time, both might feel like yours.

Motif of the book Faithfully Dissident Daughters

The Faith You Were Handed

  • God as Father, Judge, Authority
  • Women's bodies as problems to manage
  • Silence as obedience
  • Certainty over questioning
  • Your intuition as dangerous

The Faith You're Reclaiming

  • God as Mother, Wisdom, and Spirit
  • Women's bodies as sacred sites of knowing
  • Dissent as faithfulness
  • Honesty over performance
  • Your intuition as divine

The faith you inherited wasn't built with you in mind. Let's reclaim one that is.

If you're ready to stop choosing between yourself and your faith…

This is where it starts.

Front cover of the book Faithfully Dissident Daughters