Jen Hatmaker
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Anonymous
| Jen used Christianity as a vessel to get fame and money. As a small town girl raised in the Baptist church that’s what was available for her. She was once the sassy big family Bible teacher, remember? Then other larger, more exciting secular vessels presented themselves and she was only happy to jettison the old vessel and leap into the new one. It was a business decision. Don’t try to over romanticize her shift. She’s very calculating. |
Anonymous
| Longtime Jen reader here. If a person didn’t know in which order her books came out, one would think Seven and Interrupted were the later end and the products of healthy Christian maturing. She is like the Benjamin Buttons of Christian authors…the latest stuff is her most immature yet. The world got her. It happens. |
Anonymous
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If you have been following Jen for any length of time, I think it’s obvious that the “evolving” of her beliefs are just self-serving. Her daughter was gay, so she decided the Bible supports it. Her marriage fell apart, so she decided the Biblical view of marriage (with the man as the head of the family) is “oppressive”. She started dating, and really, really wants us to believe that she’s having sex with her boyfriend (though I doubt it). She gained a little fame and following, and suddenly the love of money is good! She wrote an entire book and Bible study about stewardship, and now shills constantly.
Let’s not pretend that her life now is the result of “growth”. |
Anonymous
| Self serving? Or just releasing herself from the cult-like cultural beliefs of the evangelical church? |
Anonymous
| I get bashing her for her constant selling, her big ego and her hypocritical ways but choosing not to be homophobic is not a bad thing. Come on… |
Anonymous
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Jen flexing her #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List this week. In the Advice, How To, and Misc. category.
Which sort of sounds impressive except it’s a one week wonder driven largely by her book club order. It’ll tumble off the sun list next week into oblivion. The hew Ina Garten is going to sell 4 times this next week for a comparison and have way more legs. It has to be considered a disappointment given the advance and sunk costs. |
Anonymous
Yes, you. Let’s be friends. |
Anonymous
No, it’s plain impressive. By comparison, where is your book on the NYT Bestseller list? Under any category. We’ll wait. |
Anonymous
Hi Tyler! |
Anonymous
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So it seems to me she buys herself a new pair of boots quite often - but for some reason the ones that she has REALLY wanted (for the past 30 years!) she never bought for herself. 🤔 Even though THOSE were the ones that she ~ALWAYS REALLY REALLY WANTED 😭😭😭~
Now when Tyler buys them for her after she 👉 told him how badly she has always wanted them hint hint! 👈 now they are the sweetest bestest present she has ever gotten in her entire life exclamation point exclamation point heart emoji heart emoji!!!!! And is it just me or does all their schmoopie-talk sound awkward and forced and……. who posts their schmoopie texts with a newish bf for the whole world to read? |
Anonymous
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Books used to climb to the top of best sellers list AFTER publication and people actually reading them and word of mouth making other people buying and reading them.
Now it’s all so manipulated. Really, How can a cookbook be #1 bestseller before even being published? Because people pre-order without even reading it because the author asks and gives incentives to buy and give great reviews. So, no I’ve never written a best selling cookbook. But really neither has she. She just built a network of people who would buy whatever she’s shilling. |
Anonymous
| The other titles on that list are the real best sellers, the ones that are 50 or 100 or 270 plus weeks in the list. Feed The People will be a one week wonder driven by a pre-launch campaign and bookmark club orders. It’ll drop like a stone. |
Anonymous
Thanks for these! I had heard of JHP but not BC. Watched a couple of his videos and WOW. Since Jen won’t answer, I will: GOOD FRUIT. God loves us enough to fully accept us exactly as we are, but also loves us too much to leave us that way. That is not just referencing identity/sexuality—we all come with things that need breaking off. He always has something better than what we can do and be on our own. To the comments mentioning “cult like beliefs” and “homophobic” - that is exactly how Jen basically made everyone feel who remained fully engaged in Bible-based church life. Labeled for merely understanding scripture the same way they always had—and it’s what everyone asked her to help explain when she suddenly said she’d been enlightened otherwise. And she couldn’t…or wouldn’t. Seems like she would IF she could… |
Anonymous
| The cookbook sales will probably spike a little again every Christmas and Mother’s Day for a few years too but that’s it. Until she capitalizes on it by writing a related small group study based on cooking and social justice issues where women are encouraged to get together, make and eat her recipes, while conforming their beliefs to match her latest opinions on things—and there must be wine and “spicy” language too. She can call it Jen’s Discipleship Program for the Hungry and Lost. Everyone must buy their own book $$$ but it comes with access to an exclusive Facebook group echo chamber, so…worth it. |
Anonymous
She can’t. |