Mullinghouse Press: Bound

When I first decided to write the book that became Our Fatal Sincerity I envisioned it ending with an appendix of journal entries that showed my changing thoughts about Christianity over the years. I started to transcribe my old journals into a word processor soon after and continued to work on that project simultaneously to writing the rest of the book. It quickly became clear that there was far too much material to publish together with the main text of the book, so once the transcriptions were finished, I let them sit while I finished and published the other material, and then for several more months after that. 

In the end, I decided to publish them on their own and only as an ebook, which you can now find here.

While I had originally imagined that the journals would be a primary point of attraction to Our Fatal Sincerity, when I proofread the transcriptions, I was so bored I had to give up that illusion. There are just a few interesting points throughout, but I didn't want to publish only the interesting stuff because part of the purpose in publishing these journals at all was to document how I had persistently asked God to be relational for years and years. Maybe I'll go pull out the interesting entries later and post them here. 

The ebook, which I titled Bound hoping to make a buck on people thinking it's a BDSM-themed fanfic of something I guess, has a ton of entries from 2008 to 2018, even though I only included entries that were particularly related to the theme. There were almost daily entries for most chunks of time during that period in the original journals, so I tried to exclude as many as I could.

I'm picturing this possibly being useful to people who like psychology--the mental transitions documented might be a good case study of something.

I guess it could also be fun reading for people who really like cringe-fests... but no promises there because the cringiness might be too repetitive to stay interesting.