My journey from fundamentalism to freedom has been one of community to isolation, no matter what the church signs say. I’ve gone from being the poster child to a minority. And it’s hard. It’s scary and lonely. Often painful. 6 years of wrestling have mostly been ones of isolation and frustration, because I’m thinking…
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Finding God in the Rituals
She said God is not in that church. They say they don’t understand the standing and sitting, the rote prayers, a service that is emotionless and meaningless. They say that God transforms through people, not ’empty religious rules and rituals’. And they built a church on that premise, and for many other reasons, I…