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How do you start deconstructing your faith?
Recently, the Naked Pastor David Hayward did a great Instagram series of answering questions about deconstruction. One of the questions was “how to you start deconstructing your faith?” and I loved his answer.…
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Deconstruction: When your faith falls apart
Last year, when I faced my fears and doubts head-on, it felt like my faith was falling apart. There were many nights I stayed up late, searching Google with phrases like “christian losing…
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What to do when you don’t know what to do
**Note to self: Read this whenever you are driving yourself crazy trying to make a decision. We all have made lots of important decisions in our lives. Where to move, where to attend…
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Meditation as Prayer – 2 ways to get there
I haven’t read my Bible in over 6 months. I’ve dabbled in a few verses here and there but I haven’t actually cracked it open and studied it like I used to. And…
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Emotionally Empty = Peace?
While I’ve had doubts and questions about my faith for over a decade, I really only faced them head-on starting last November. Around mid-March, after the initial wave of fear/anger/grief/impulsiveness wore off, I…
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Living Loved
A magazine article a while back told the heart-wrenching, anonymous stories of people who had adopted children and then later asked to “send them back.” The point of the article was to highlight…
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You are not alone in leaving or losing or questioning or deconstructing your faith
It feels like a secret I have to keep, this strange space I’m in right now with my faith. For the past 30 years, I followed – and considered myself a member of…
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Finding a new way to pray
You know you need to pray. You know you’re supposed to pray. You know that praying should be easy – it’s just “talking to God,” right? Then why is it SO HARD? And…
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When you think you know…
April 1998. I was a freshman in college and “God Awareness Week” had finally arrived. An event our college Intervarsity chapter had been working hard on for months, “GAW” included a series of…
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Are we suffering well?
Are we suffering well? There are two parts to this question: 1) Are we suffering? 2) If yes, are we suffering well? Christians talk a lot about suffering and how we should expect…
