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I survived abuse only to live a lie before learning to thrive as my true self. My memoir, WHY, is due to be published in Winter 2023.

Beyond The Stained Glass Closet - Saturday Edition - Issue #11

Moving to Substack as been great! Memoir Update, Last Week's Posts

Randy Scobey

Sep 24, 2022

Hello Friends,

Substack Love

If you were following my blog (before moving to Substack last week), you know I sent a weekly (mostly) email newsletter on Saturdays that included various updates and links to the past week’s post. Now on Substack, every post gets sent to email and the Substack Reader app. However, I still plan on doing the weekly Saturday email newsletter like this :).

By the way, it hasn’t even been a week, and I wonder where Substack has been all my life. Lol. It makes everything so much easier and consolidated! It is a wonderful community for writers, readers, and creatives. So far, I have had nothing short of a great experience. I hope you enjoy interacting with this space. Let me know what you think!

Memoir Update

Unfortunately, the lead person on the editing team for my memoir had a family member pass away. My love and positive vibes are going out to her, and if you are inclined, please do the same. It’s a significant loss for her and her family. Understandably our content editing has been put on hold. Stay tuned…

Recent Posts

Last week’s post got more engagement than I have seen since starting to blog regularly again. Here are link boxes to the previous week’s posts:

Randy Scobey: "Beyond The Stained Glass Closet"

Post-Exodus Exgay Organizations Fail to Individuate At Their Core; But That Won't Stop Their Civil War (Part 1)

It's an interesting dynamic watching exgay groups compete with each other, sometimes throwing shade or outright insults at one another when the same deadly theology underlies everything they do. You’d think they would be fast friends with like-minded goals, but that will never happen because…

a year ago · 2 likes · Randy Scobey

Part 2 of this post will publish Monday at 9 AM EST.

Randy Scobey: "Beyond The Stained Glass Closet"

Broken Hearts Can Heal In Surprising Ways

I received this email from K a good long while after I came out again. I will post the whole message (it’s short) so you can see the full context. Then I will parse out each point they are making and respond. First, the complete message: Randy, I cannot begin to tell you the pain, hurt, and confusion that you caused me. I went to Exodus conferences. You …

a year ago · 1 like · Randy Scobey

The private messages I received about these two posts were very encouraging, and one was heartbreaking but all good. I love hearing from you all, so never hesitate to send a message if you want to give feedback or ask a question. I am all ears!