Jen Hatmaker

[Anonymous]

Amazingly the guy they hired to take over ANC wears hats all the time.

Makes a big fuss about it too. Always comments on them.
Like it’s his calling card. Or his brand.

These people are so so weird.

What middle aged adult behaves like this?

[Anonymous]

I agree with the pp who said you don’t blow up your life that big and then just magically heal from it in a couple of months. The shrapnel and falllout from his choices will be felt a lifetime by those who were in his orbit when it happened. The people who choose get into a relationship with someone as they’re either blowing it all up or immediately afterwards are in for their own world of suffering for having to deal someone before they’ve figured out a lot of things. No amount of diamond rings, Gucci bags or Mexican vacations can cover up a partner’s ability to self-destruct and take you down with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazingly the guy they hired to take over ANC wears hats all the time.

Makes a big fuss about it too. Always comments on them.
Like it’s his calling card. Or his brand.

These people are so so weird.

What middle aged adult behaves like this?

He didn’t wear that hat until we moved to the new location. He also didn’t wear the priest collar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:he’s aggressively fighting with the fat man and fat cells within his body.

aren’t we all, aren’t we all. smh Lol spoiler alert: after 40 it’s pretty much all u do! LOL at least now I’ll have a hilariously judgemental quote to remind me of my mission when I’m deciding “drive thru or eat at home?” “Sleep 20 more mins or get up and do yoga?” Come on girl! Don’t let the fat bi—- cells take over! Fight!

[Anonymous]

I've noticed that another Christian mommy blogger / influencer is doing the same thing as Jen. She's quit posting about faith completely, and now her whole account just seems to be links to buy things. 😑🥴 Jessica Turner... Former wife of Matthew Turner, who had some best selling Christian books for children. He announced he was gay and they got divorced.

[Anonymous]

Why is it that when Christian Mommy Bloggers deconstruct their faiths they stop teaching the Bible and become constant shillers of all manner of weaponized promo code crap?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's too much for people to combine "Christian" influencing with cooking, decorating, fashion, and merchandising, even child rearing. It's inevitable that her following will cling onto all of it like Gospel.


She left the Christian phase quite awhile ago. Now she is Big Sis, leader of a fairly large girl squad -- most of whom seem to have a lot of disposable income to send her way to buy all of the stuff she's shilling.

I followed her when she presented as a funny but earnest mom just trying to raise a blended family (as I was). Obviously she's one and done with that schtick.

I'm not a girl's girl, so I find the new Jen frankly ridiculous. Was she always this shallow and she was just hiding it behind a patina of evangelism?

[Anonymous]

Seriously, y’all that knew them, were Jen and Brandon always this shallow and just it better hid under the guise of Christian spirituality? They both seem to have taken a hard left from their old salt of the earth, grappling with real issues in the church personas into how to look young and have as much fun as possible with as little real work or vulnerability as possible? It’s actually mystifying how hard they’ve rejected their old ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, y’all that knew them, were Jen and Brandon always this shallow and just it better hid under the guise of Christian spirituality? They both seem to have taken a hard left from their old salt of the earth, grappling with real issues in the church personas into how to look young and have as much fun as possible with as little real work or vulnerability as possible? It’s actually mystifying how hard they’ve rejected their old ways.

I think it’s a story of two faiths.

I think Brandon had a real faith at one time. He was a good shepherd and people who were at ANC a decade ago saw real fruit.
I think that fame and money sadly pulled him away from his first love, sadly, but hopefully not forever. There was always a hint of sadness about him, though. A bit like a kicked dog. I don’t think he was ever really comfortable leading a church but did do for his wife’s ambition at the time.

Jen, though, pretty soon after you got into the ANC orbit was only all about the surface, the social media clicks, not really serving but wanting to appear like a big servant hearted gay online, etc.
We’d make little jokes about her, about how if Jen was on the meal calendar that day you’d better make a plan B for dinner that cause you knew no meal was coming.

[Anonymous]

Jen, though, pretty soon after you got into the ANC orbit was only all about the surface, the social media clicks, not really serving but wanting to appear like a big servant hearted gay online, etc.
We’d make little jokes about her, about how if Jen was on the meal calendar that day you’d better make a plan B for dinner that cause you knew no meal was coming.



aka Too Cool for Grunt Work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, y’all that knew them, were Jen and Brandon always this shallow and just it better hid under the guise of Christian spirituality? They both seem to have taken a hard left from their old salt of the earth, grappling with real issues in the church personas into how to look young and have as much fun as possible with as little real work or vulnerability as possible? It’s actually mystifying how hard they’ve rejected their old ways.

No one in our ex-ANC group got to know either J or B really well because they didn’t want to be known. They didn’t go out of their way to meet any members that weren’t Jenny or Shonna. Sure Jen paraded around some LGBT members as tokens in the front row but they weren’t pursuing friendship.

After the LGBT-fallout the church leadership asked the members to handmake greeting cards for Brandon and Jen to show support for them because it was so hard for them. I wondered how shallow their faith and skin must be that they need people to send them greeting cards of support because they made a choice to affirm. The best part was I heard later from one of the inner circle that they made fun of the cards because the messages were over the top.

Jen supporters in this thread, she isn’t your big sis. You aren’t friends. They call you corn eaters and take your money. I’m sorry you bought into the lies because I did too.

[Anonymous]

I've always Ioved this Maya Angelou quote:
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

I was an adoptive mom struggling with young children from Third world countries who had been through unimaginable difficulties, who blended in with a family with other domestic adopted children from difficult circumstances plus bio children and I found Jen a through random blog.
For a brief period she made me feel that someone out there had a clue as to what I was going through.
I don't feel that way any more. I feel like she's using God-given communication gifts to con people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Jen, though, pretty soon after you got into the ANC orbit was only all about the surface, the social media clicks, not really serving but wanting to appear like a big servant hearted gay online, etc.
We’d make little jokes about her, about how if Jen was on the meal calendar that day you’d better make a plan B for dinner that cause you knew no meal was coming.

I was stood up by JH on a meal train in 2015. I never said anything because who wants to rock the boat. She never called or even acted like she missed anything. Some PP said it above—I don’t think there is one example of Jen going over the top for someone else. Plenty of examples of receiving over the top gestures from others but when has she ever dropped everything to show up for a friend in need? I’ll wait.

[Anonymous]

You know, that is an excellent point. I don't recall ever reading about Jen ministering to a friend or a sister in Christ. It's always her "tribe" coming to her, feeding her, going on trips to make her feel better, decorating her house like a spa, etc. Clearly she has been through what would be a nightmare for any woman. But it is not unusual, unfortunately. I feel more compassion for the lady who works at Dollar General and never knows if her child support will be late, who has 3 kids and zero safety net for sickness or emergencies. Again, trauma is trauma, but my Lord, I have never seen anyone with more help than Jen. The tone deafness is over the top.

[Anonymous]

Jen dropped everything and went to be her friend Jamie Wright aka “the worst missionary” when her 18 year old son died by suicide. It happened a couple days after the online girl squad had been together down in Texas. Jamie said Jen immediately went to cooking for everyone and found a way to even get them to laugh. (Trauma does weird things) I read this on Jamie’s FB and she said she felt deeply cared for by Jen during that crises. Jen has also given her home and yard to be used for her friend’s kids weddings and baby showers.

That’s all I know of though. It does appear the acts of service mostly flow to her not out to others.