You don’t lose God all at once; He goes in pieces. It’s like your hearing being claimed by a disease, or your memory by age, or love… Read more “Water on the Flames: A Post-Faith Playlist”
Category: Religion
A Review of Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans
You don’t lose your faith all at once. You lose it as a series of small concessions and releases, a string of low-casualty surrenders. With each piece… Read more “A Review of Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans”
Lost Faith and the Vocabulary of Belief: A Reflective Review of Marilynne Robinson’s Lila
“I grew up the son of a preacher without a church, and my childhood was spent in his quest to find one. Our puke-yellow camper van dumped… Read more “Lost Faith and the Vocabulary of Belief: A Reflective Review of Marilynne Robinson’s Lila”
Jennifer Knapp Is Facing the Music
In 1998 I was sixteen years old, even scrawnier than I am now, and very Christian. The world of Evangelicalism in the late 1990s was a unique and insular… Read more “Jennifer Knapp Is Facing the Music”
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