Anonymous
09/24/2025 20:56
Subject: Jen Hatmaker
Anonymous wrote:I think I'm about halfway through the book, maybe a little more.
I'm listening to it not reading it. I think I fell asleep for a minute while getting a pedicure but I think I still get the gist of everything.
It is mildly interesting but not riveting. If I weren't a JH follower, I don't think it would be interesting at all. It's typical OTT Jen style, of course. She strikes me as someone who hasn't grown much emotionally past young adulthood, no matter how much she says otherwise.
There is almost zero tea on her marriage and really nothing we don't already know. It is a lot of snippets about her childhood and her adult friendships and a lot of stuff about being raised in a conservative church.
The chapters are very short and there's no linear layout at all. It jumps around which is jarring. There's not much tying one chapter to the next. I dislike the way it is laid out and if I weren't somewhat familiar with her already I probably would have given up on it out of confusion.
Aside from a mention of a creepy teacher, which I wish she'd have actually expanded on, it's mostly church hurt and it honestly comes off as a little ridiculous to be so impacted by this today. There was a chapter on how much Remy bugs her, which was without much context. I think she might have been trying to allude to Remy being on the spectrum without actually saying it but she's not clever enough with words - or just covering her butt - to really go there. I don't imagine Remy would have enjoyed reading that.
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So she put a chapter in her book telling the world about how much the child she adopted bugs her? That's cruel and classless IMO.
Anonymous
09/24/2025 20:52
Subject: Jen Hatmaker
Anonymous
09/24/2025 20:43
Subject: Jen Hatmaker
Anonymous wrote:There is a Glennon thread but now with so many new players who are various degrees of horrifying, we need a totally new thread.
I never really liked Kristen but my goodness the new Mrs Howerton is a piece of work.
Should we do this here? Trainwreck Howerton 2.0 openly talks about how she looks herself up on Reddit (and then went on a weird rant about how she’s not a wannabe influencer… sure, Jan.) There are also some obviously fake threads about her “clients” touting her services. Maybe that’s reason enough to bring it over there.
Anonymous
09/24/2025 19:45
Subject: Jen Hatmaker
I think I'm about halfway through the book, maybe a little more.
I'm listening to it not reading it. I think I fell asleep for a minute while getting a pedicure but I think I still get the gist of everything.
It is mildly interesting but not riveting. If I weren't a JH follower, I don't think it would be interesting at all. It's typical OTT Jen style, of course. She strikes me as someone who hasn't grown much emotionally past young adulthood, no matter how much she says otherwise.
There is almost zero tea on her marriage and really nothing we don't already know. It is a lot of snippets about her childhood and her adult friendships and a lot of stuff about being raised in a conservative church.
The chapters are very short and there's no linear layout at all. It jumps around which is jarring. There's not much tying one chapter to the next. I dislike the way it is laid out and if I weren't somewhat familiar with her already I probably would have given up on it out of confusion.
Aside from a mention of a creepy teacher, which I wish she'd have actually expanded on, it's mostly church hurt and it honestly comes off as a little ridiculous to be so impacted by this today. There was a chapter on how much Remy bugs her, which was without much context. I think she might have been trying to allude to Remy being on the spectrum without actually saying it but she's not clever enough with words - or just covering her butt - to really go there. I don't imagine Remy would have enjoyed reading that.
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I'm listening to it not reading it. I think I fell asleep for a minute while getting a pedicure but I think I still get the gist of everything.
It is mildly interesting but not riveting. If I weren't a JH follower, I don't think it would be interesting at all. It's typical OTT Jen style, of course. She strikes me as someone who hasn't grown much emotionally past young adulthood, no matter how much she says otherwise.
There is almost zero tea on her marriage and really nothing we don't already know. It is a lot of snippets about her childhood and her adult friendships and a lot of stuff about being raised in a conservative church.
The chapters are very short and there's no linear layout at all. It jumps around which is jarring. There's not much tying one chapter to the next. I dislike the way it is laid out and if I weren't somewhat familiar with her already I probably would have given up on it out of confusion.
Aside from a mention of a creepy teacher, which I wish she'd have actually expanded on, it's mostly church hurt and it honestly comes off as a little ridiculous to be so impacted by this today. There was a chapter on how much Remy bugs her, which was without much context. I think she might have been trying to allude to Remy being on the spectrum without actually saying it but she's not clever enough with words - or just covering her butt - to really go there. I don't imagine Remy would have enjoyed reading that.
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Anonymous
09/24/2025 19:29
Subject: Jen Hatmaker
There is a Glennon thread but now with so many new players who are various degrees of horrifying, we need a totally new thread.
I never really liked Kristen but my goodness the new Mrs Howerton is a piece of work.
I never really liked Kristen but my goodness the new Mrs Howerton is a piece of work.
Anonymous
09/24/2025 19:26
Subject: Re:Jen Hatmaker
Hatmakrr adjacent thread may be worth a try because there’s so much to discuss w the messy Howerton group w ties to glennon.
Yes. Please. I feel bad that we keep highjacking this thread but I would love a place to talk about Scarlette Longstreet's 24/7 filming and pick-me poses, Mark Howerton's trainwreck of a new wife, Glennon's ongoing werdiness, and the Eat Pray Love writer trying to kill her girlfriend. How do we start a thread? Should it be on here or on Reddit? Maybe it could be called Exvangelical Influencers or something.
Anonymous
09/24/2025 19:15
Subject: Jen Hatmaker
I flipped through the book at B&N this week, and while I feel the content was largely known and recycled from all the words she has said and written since July of 2020, she included a really interesting story about a predatory teacher. It was spot on, describing his personal questions to everyone during class time, his utter lack of boundaries, his greasy familiarity with the students and especially the females. Unfortunately, many Gen Xers have similar accounts.
Anonymous
09/24/2025 19:08
Subject: Jen Hatmaker
Jamie and Kristen have moved on with what seem like genuinely nice guys who love them. This is the one big item missing in Jen's life right now: a true companion in life. Tyler throws a wrench in her whole journey of supposed enlightenment.
Anonymous
09/24/2025 19:03
Subject: Re:Jen Hatmaker
He claps back at some of the junk that she has woven, like the idea that she was instantly a single mom and he was nowhere to be found in their kids' lives.
Yeah, he has never had custody of his kids since the divorce and two were still in high school when all this happened. He may show up for birthdays and holidays but that isn't parenting. He moved almost an hour away and never had a space where his kids could live. I have no sympathy for divorced men with zero actual custody of their kids. I think it's crazy that so many of these former pastors get a divorce and then don't even have their kids part-time. Mark Howerton obviously did this too and if I remember correctly Jamie the very worst missionary's ex moved to another state to run some weird motel while their youngest was still in high school. I don't love how these three women have publicly whined about their ex's but I can also admit they did seem to be married to terribly selfish men.