The Post Church Files

Madame Morrible: The Ones Who Control the Weather

The quiet power-keepers who make harmful systems feel like home

Jan 9 • Sam Sellers

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The Invisible Pressures We Carry

What lingers after the system is gone

Jan 2 • Sam Sellers

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December 2025

Reading as a Way Back to Ourselves

My 2025 Reading Year (Yes, Including the Spicy Ones)

Dec 26, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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You Can Miss the Magic Without Missing the Manipulation

On Christmas, Nostalgia, and Religious Trauma

Dec 19, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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The Christmas Doctrine Double Whammy

A festive journey through beauty, indoctrination, and why my nervous system still twitches at the first chord of O Holy Night

Dec 12, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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When Concern Was Control in Disguise

On spiritual coercion, internalised compliance, and learning to trust yourself when the system taught you not to.

Dec 5, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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November 2025

Maybe I Was ‘Wicked’ All Along And Maybe That Saved Me

What Wicked: For Good reveals about queerness, coercion, and leaving harmful systems.

Nov 28, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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Defying Gravity, Again

A story of defiance, loss, and choosing truth over belonging.

Nov 21, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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Oceans (Where Faith and Fear Collide)

How a worship anthem became the soundtrack to my self-abandonment.

Nov 14, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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Let’s talk about what religious trauma actually is

Because it’s certainly not “church hurt”.

Nov 7, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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October 2025

When old conditioning crashes your confidence

The body, belief, and the ghosts of obedience

Oct 31, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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Grieving the father I had, the one I didn’t, and the one I thought God was

Because sometimes grief is a bit of a mess

Oct 24, 2025 • Sam Sellers

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