LIKE WINGS, YOUR HANDS author Elizabeth Earley navigates religious trauma in an article on Advocate magazine

I was listening to NPR, watching my kids swim in the bay, their shining heads bobbing in the light-studded water when I heard the news about the tragic death of Nex Benedict. I felt grief and a sadly familiar hand of fear pressing down on my chest.

I searched the Internet to see if it related to religion, and it did, but not in the way I expected.