We need to stop faith healing. “Cancer comes from demons, and If you have enough faith, you can cast them out.” These words were said to a friend of mine, a friend who is raw and tender form losing their young daughter to brain cancer. Somehow more prayers, better prayers, more faith, better faith would […]
I feel like I was lied to. I feel like the gospel wasn’t fully preached to me. It feels as if I was deceived, given a bait and switch, as if what was taught to me was simply wrong. Growing up you don’t really have much say in what you are indoctrinated into. So when […]
Grief isn’t a linear process It’s twisty, curvy, circling back on itself as you experience it again and again. Grief is like waves washing up on a shore, they ebb and flow, moving changing, becoming rough at times, placid at others. Grief is a wound that takes time to heal and keeps getting reopened again, […]
I didn’t want to leave. I didn’t want to be another exit story, another dissatisfied customer, another exvangelical. I wanted to stay, to affect change, to help heal the wounds I saw bleeding out all around me. I wanted to be part of the people of God, even with all our flaws. I wanted to […]
We used to burn so brightly. There was something beautiful about our passion, our fire. We glowed and flickered, raged and shone brightly. We were the future, pastors, worship leaders, evangelists. We were the Joshua generation, charged with ushering the church into a promised land in the midst of a dark culture surrounding us. We […]