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Immersive meditations on time, meaning, prayer, and the irreplaceable life that arrived as you.

Questions About God·6 min read

Curiosity is Welcome

On wonder, mystery & the long thread of faith

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Doubt·9 min read

The Question God Isn't Afraid Of

What if your doubt isn't the opposite of faith, but the doorway into it?

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Faith After Hurt·8 min read

Leaving the Church Without Leaving God

Sometimes people leave church because they are desperately trying not to lose their connection with God.

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Fear·9 min read

What the Bible Actually Says About Fear

“Do not be afraid” shows up more than almost any other command. That is not an accident.

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Grace·7 min read

Grace Is Not a Loophole

Grace was never meant to be the small print. It was meant to be the whole letter.

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Difficult Scriptures·10 min read

Reading Difficult Scriptures Gently

A way to sit with the passages that have hurt you, without pretending they aren't there.

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Faith After Hurt·10 min read

What Is Prayer, Really?

Maybe prayer was never about informing God of something He did not already know. Maybe it is how the soul remembers what the mind forgot.

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Spiritual Trauma·12 min read

Church Hurt

There is a kind of pain that cuts deeper when it comes wrapped in the name of God. Healing begins when we stop pretending it didn't happen.

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Anxiety·14 min read

The Anxiety That Prayer Didn't Fix

What I wish someone had told me before they handed me another verse.

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Questions About God·18 min read

Did God Create Evil?

If God created everything, and evil is something, then the math seems simple. The truth turns out to be stranger, older, and more freeing than the question assumes.

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