The Problem With Purity

This speaker participated in our 2018 Conference. Learn more about our 2023 conference speakers here.

Saturday, May 19 | 11:30am-12:00pm

We all struggle with complicated issues around the human body. Much of our culture is informed by patriarchal religious views, which teach people to transcend the body rather than be fully within it. This has resulted in systems of control and repression. By examining fears of the physical in all of us, and finding presence in our existence, we can not only strengthen our relationships with each other, but also with life itself.

Lauren Barnhart

Lauren J. Barnhart is currently writing a book on the history of religion and conquest. She has published essays, poems, short stories, and the memoir, No End Of The Bed, which explored her transition from the Fundamentalist Christian Church. Lauren is also an artist who mainly paints abstract works in oil, examining the process of time within life, death, and regeneration.

Find Lauren on Twitter @laurenjbarnhart or her websites laurenjbarnhart.com and laurenjbarnhart-art.com.