Jen Hatmaker

[Anonymous]

Sarah Bessey recently wrote on her substack about stepping back from most of her prior work - giving hot takes, leading things, speaking gigs. Then she writes “Some of the people I thought were my friends drifted away when I wasn’t useful anymore, when I wasn’t a stepping stone they required for their ambitious heights. I won’t lie and say that one didn’t sting. Thankfully, now I’m left with a small circle I genuinely trust, those who remember to catch-up when they don’t have a project to promote.”

Is she talking about Jen?

[Anonymous]

Could be Jen. Jen used to post a lot about Sarah as a prayer warrior and invaluable support. Sarah even did some MeCourses with Jen.

I don’t think that whole women’s online writing group is very close post divorce. I think it’s because Jen never got over that lake house weekend as being a huge humiliating eye opener.

[Anonymous]

For Sarah, that could be a number of the online bestie group-she helped them find publishers and get manuscript ideas ready. She probably needs to clarify better.
She is joining Jamie in realizing the whole online hot take industrial complex is exhausting and relentless.

[Anonymous]

The group of them were together in January 2025 (Jen, Sarah B, Kristen H., Tara L., Jamie, and Sarah FG), and in Tara’s post she said they catch up in January. I doubt Sarah Bessey’s post was about Jen unless something’s happened since the start of the year.

Sarah was around a ton of famous Christians and famous progressive Christians so it could have been anyone.

[Anonymous]

Maybe. Maybe not. This sounds like a direct anti-Jen take:

“Tonight’s conversation is just one of the millions of conversations that make up my life with her and her siblings, my husband and our real-life people. These conversations never become “content;” they will never teach anyone else a lesson, never illustrate a point, never leave the sanctuary of our home. This is the real sacred work.” (From the same Sarah B Blog)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe. Maybe not. This sounds like a direct anti-Jen take:

“Tonight’s conversation is just one of the millions of conversations that make up my life with her and her siblings, my husband and our real-life people. These conversations never become “content;” they will never teach anyone else a lesson, never illustrate a point, never leave the sanctuary of our home. This is the real sacred work.” (From the same Sarah B Blog)

What does this even mean? Sarah B seems like she huffs her own farts to cope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe. Maybe not. This sounds like a direct anti-Jen take:

“Tonight’s conversation is just one of the millions of conversations that make up my life with her and her siblings, my husband and our real-life people. These conversations never become “content;” they will never teach anyone else a lesson, never illustrate a point, never leave the sanctuary of our home. This is the real sacred work.” (From the same Sarah B Blog)

What does this even mean? Sarah B seems like she huffs her own farts to cope.

I think it means: “I won’t post my private text messages with my family, because I live a real life of NOT being an attention-seeking a-hole.” (Paraphrased)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe. Maybe not. This sounds like a direct anti-Jen take:

“Tonight’s conversation is just one of the millions of conversations that make up my life with her and her siblings, my husband and our real-life people. These conversations never become “content;” they will never teach anyone else a lesson, never illustrate a point, never leave the sanctuary of our home. This is the real sacred work.” (From the same Sarah B Blog)

What does this even mean? Sarah B seems like she huffs her own farts to cope.

I'm stealing this line to use with my own real-life people.

Thanks PP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe. Maybe not. This sounds like a direct anti-Jen take:

“Tonight’s conversation is just one of the millions of conversations that make up my life with her and her siblings, my husband and our real-life people. These conversations never become “content;” they will never teach anyone else a lesson, never illustrate a point, never leave the sanctuary of our home. This is the real sacred work.” (From the same Sarah B Blog)

What does this even mean? Sarah B seems like she huffs her own farts to cope.

I think it means: “I won’t post my private text messages with my family, because I live a real life of NOT being an attention-seeking a-hole.” (Paraphrased)

But the immediately obvious problem here is that she still has to tell us about it. In that sense, arguably, most everything posted to social media, even telling us you're not telling us about your private conversations, is attention seeking. Otherwise, why post about it? It reminds me of the time an acquaintance posted a picture of her messy kitchen and said she was keeping it real by showing us. Maybe, but it still has a whiff of attention seeking. My thought is, just keep it off of social media if you wanna keep it real. There's so much people don't need to know about at all.