Lived Through This

I Was in a Cult, and Maybe You Were Too

Memoirs of a former Southern Baptist

Hannah Lane
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readFeb 29, 2020

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Mid-century children wade into the local river for a group baptism.
Photos courtesy of the author.

II was born on the shores of northeastern North Carolina to a schoolteacher and a commercial fisherman. We were the idyllic corn-fed, blue-collar, middle-class family. Religion was background noise in our home. Neither of my parents practiced much, but it didn’t prevent them from…

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Hannah Lane
Human Parts

Meditations on queerness, religion, and the southern identity. Email: hannah.lane177@gmail.com