Married to an evangelical paster's son with a comfortable life, the author describes her reckoning with religious trauma and Midwestern values as she shed years of indoctrination, piety, and repression and came out as queer, and discusses how evangelicalism has undermined American political power structures.

In the beginning -- A wall to work upon -- You are (not) your own -- Live laugh love -- Martyrs and suicide girls -- F/F -- The queen of swords -- This is my body -- Communion -- The promised land.