Beyond the Faith I Inherited | A Short Documentary with Chelsea Kim Long

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What happens when the version of faith you inherited is no longer big enough to hold your actual life?
In this short documentary, author Chelsea Kim Long shares the deeply personal journey behind her book “Faithfully Dissident Daughters: Reclaiming Christian Womanhood beyond Patriarchy.” Through reflections on purity culture, motherhood, trauma, deconstruction, embodiment, and reconstruction, Chelsea explores what it means to rediscover a faith expansive enough to embrace the fullness of who we are.
Rather than walking away from Christianity, Chelsea found herself asking a different question: Is there a version of Christian faith that doesn't require women to become smaller than they really are? This conversation traces the path that led her to write Faithfully Dissident Daughters and invites viewers to imagine a faith rooted in wholeness, honesty, and the lived experiences of real people.
Chapters
00:07 - Introduction
01:02 – 01: The Faith I Inherited
03:52 – 02: A Expansive Faith
07:54 – 03: Rethinking Biblical Womanhood
09:55 – 04: An Embodied Faith
13:47 – 05: Writing the Story I Couldn't Find
15:30 – 06: Keeping God & Keeping Yourself

About Faithfully Dissident Daughters:
“Faithfully Dissident Daughters: Reclaiming Christian Womanhood beyond Patriarchy” invites readers to reconsider what it means to be a faithful Christian woman in light of Scripture, lived experience, and God's expansive love.
Drawing from her own story, Chelsea Kim Long explores purity culture, motherhood, biblical interpretation, embodiment, and spiritual reconstruction, offering hope to those who have wondered whether they must choose between their faith and themselves. With honesty, compassion, and theological depth, she points toward a vision of Christian womanhood grounded not in fear or performance, but in freedom, wholeness, and belonging.
“Faithfully Dissident Daughters” releases on September 8, 2026.
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