When the Certainties Fail Us: Spiritual Direction for Recovering Evangelicals

When I was 10 my family moved from our small New England town to the suburban sprawl of Colorado Springs. We quickly joined a mega church and reformed fundamentalism washed into our lives like hurricane, wiping out our simple family faith practices and replacing them with the debris of 500 years of culture wars, systematicContinue reading “When the Certainties Fail Us: Spiritual Direction for Recovering Evangelicals”

Some Light Blinds, Some Illuminates: I Once Was Right But Now I See

In the chaos of upended routines and travel and summer heat, words have been coming to me fast and wild, unplanned reflections and questions and poems born out of a swirling cacophony of new experiences and ideas crashing into old rhythms and assumptions. Like pouring from a full pitcher, each time inspiration struck the flowContinue reading “Some Light Blinds, Some Illuminates: I Once Was Right But Now I See”