Ronna Russell
Writer. Truth-teller. Feminist.
The Uncomfortable Confessions
of a Preacher’s Kid

Latest posts
Blog posts appear in reverse chronologically, so start with
“Loose Demons” to get the whole picture.
Thoughts on Katherine May’s Work
If you, like me, love Katherine May's books, you may have caught her long-awaited interview on Glennon Doyle's We Can Do Hard Things podcast this week. I have some thoughts. Katherine May on We Can Do Hard Things The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May...
Meeting His Royal Highness Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
We were sure we had plenty of time to change terminals at O’Hare as we lollygagged to the international security gate until we rounded a corner and joined the horde of people bunched together in a white hallway packed with strollers, backpacks, drunken businessmen in...
Room
I lived with my family in a one hundred-year-old barn of a house. The old place was solid as a rock, made of old-growth fir, double walls in some places, which was lucky because there was no insulation...
About Ronna
I was raised the daughter of a preacher in the cult of the United Pentecostal Church. It was an oppressed and repressed environment that never felt right. The experience shaped my formative years leaving me ill-equipped for life in the real world, but life in the real world happened anyway. Like everyone, I have had some successes and some failures. The stories I share here are my own, for no purpose other than to make sense of it all in the end.