Writing
On faith, fear, doubt, and belonging, from a pastor who changed his mind about some of what he used to preach.
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I Learned How to Perform Certainty
And I suspect I’m Not the Only One As a pastor, I loved preaching. With a Bible in one hand and a…
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Where Does It Hurt?
For almost forty years, I stood behind pulpits with an open Bible in front of me. I loved the people sitting in…
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What If God Never Told Them to Kill?
I plopped down in my easy chair in the living room. Ten minutes earlier I had rolled out of bed and made…
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The Day I Stopped Defending God
Before the doors opened, I tried to prepare myself for what was about to happen. I looked around the unfamiliar room, appointed…
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The Noah’s Ark Story I Couldn’t Unsee
I was nine years old, sitting cross-legged on the linoleum floor of our church basement. Sister Shirley told us we had a…