I think that many Christians have been indoctrinated with the idea that they don't have to do anything and it will all come to them as it should, and if it doesn't, then it wasn't meant to be. That's pretty much the same as saying that only some of us are predestined to be saved [...]
I was lied to. My whole generation was. We were told that the world was too scary a place, that we should stay safe at home and never experience the reality of other people who didn’t think the way we did, who didn’t believe the things we believed, who didn’t treat others the way we [...]
A woman I know in a very friend-of-a-friend way shared an encounter she had at the age of fifteen, and I imagined it played out like this: I was sprawled across the sheets, all the stringy arms and legs of a fifteen-year-old who thought she was fat, and could feel it in the air. Some [...]
Sometimes things happen in life that leap into the base of your stomach with a thunk and slowly spend the next few days crawling back up the cliff face of your esophagus without a rope. It doesn’t matter who you talk to or how secretive you become about what’s going on—the fear sticks to your [...]
