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“If it also isn’t true for a poor Christian mom in Haiti, it’s not true.” - Jen Hatmaker[/quote]

Did she really say that? Good Lord has she managed to stray far from her former self!

Also, I really loved her rebranding of "privilege" as a "grand gesture to yourself." That latest video is wading uncomfortably into Rachel Hollis territory.[/quote]

I think that was originally a Sarah Bessey quote, but I'm not 100% sure.

I used to really like Jen. And as a more progressive Christian, it didn't bother me when she started speaking about social justice issues. I viewed it as part of the growth from the woman who once wrote 'Seven.' And yet I think that's also when she started to go off the rails. Her OG audience didn't like the new 'speaking up about issues' Jen. (And maybe she had some learning to do about HOW to speak up...balancing passion vs. coming across like we are scolding can be a tricky thing.) As her faith shifted she entered that territory of "Who am I now?" Most of us get to do that in private. But if she wanted to hold on to her platform, her writing, everything that she thought made her JEN, she had to work through it in public. It has not gone well. I see her as someone trying on different personas trying to figure out who she is, which has only been complicated by her divorce. Is she social justice warrior Jen? (I use the term in love, as I'm a bit of an SJW myself.) Is she Wine Mom Jen? Is she Author Jen? Is she Fab and Fifty Jen? (wait...how old is she?) Is she Influencer Jen? I think she is someone who is struggling with who she is on all fronts. Everything that used to define her is falling away, her platform, her marriage, her children (she's only 1 kid away from being an empty nester, and that's a weird place to be when you've spent almost 30 years with kids underfoot). So she's trying to figure out who her audience is now, and I'm not sure she's got the support she needs to do it in a healthy way. She's throwing stuff at a wall and hoping something sticks.

I do not expect her to be able to sustain this forever. She will crack sooner or later. She needs to set aside the platform, trust that if it's meant to be she will be able to rebuild it when she's ready, and go do some heavy work with a therapist and people who care about her to figure out who she really is. She can come back when she is a more mature, thoughtful Jen.[/quote]

This is how I feel. I agree with her on many issues and felt drawn to her when she started speaking out. I have appreciated her voice and have seen that she’s taken on some risk to speak out in evangelical Christian spaces. However, I cannot relate to “me camps” and promo codes. I don’t like all of the JH hate in this thread, but I do understand where it’s coming from. [/quote]

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