Giving Your Child to the Devil Invites the Devil Closer
If the fruits of your actions are death, how can you claim to be following God?
Tag: faith
Creating a Pliable God
Do we really want to boil God’s power down to a weather report?
Recluttering My Life
Sometimes we need something to hold.
When Jesus Was Dead
We like to remember the resurrection. But are we forgetting that there was a time when Jesus was dead?
A Strong Faith
We’re often told that trails can make our faith stronger, but what does that strong faith look like?
Relationship vs. Religion and What Leelah Alcorn’s Suicide Shows Us
I’ve been thinking about Leelah Alcorn a lot over the past few days. It saddens me to no end that yet another transgender person has felt so alone that she believed that her only release was death. I hate that it took her death for her to be seen as the woman that she was.
And I’ll be honest, I’ve been thinking about her mom a lot as well. Thinking about what it’s like to lose a child to suicide and to bear the weight of responsibility for that.
New Series: Why Are Christians Bad At Grief?
My mom worked in a nursing home almost my entire life. Every few months after school, we would go over to “the home” and help decorate for the upcoming holiday. We would sing and play for the hymn sings. On Mondays we would go help my mom bring residents to the activity center for the […]
The Desperate Woman
The man kissed the woman, and she kissed back. She was promised to someone else and so was he, but she wasn’t thinking about the other people right then, not really. She wasn’t thinking about long-term consequences, not really. She knew that with that kiss everything changed, but the full weight of that didn’t matter […]
How Music Saved My Faith (Over and Over)
(This post is part of the synchroblog “What Saved Your Faith?” hosted by Ed Cyzewski to celebrate the release of his new book, “A Christian Survival Guide.” Get the book free today only!) Fridays were chapel day at the private school I attended in elementary school. We would gather by grade in the church’s sanctuary, […]
Beauty In the Darkness of Doubt
The five of us laid out under the open sky in Vermont. We had just visited the arcade at the campground and we were on our way back to the RV when someone noticed just how much of the sky we could see. The stars stretched across the vast, night tapestry. As we watched the […]
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