If you are a person who prefers their leaders in a clearly delineated worldview, and you find me confusing, well, try being me.

Sometimes faith deconstruction is liberating and adventurous. Other times I cry and cry and cry.

Recapping our summer series on Woven by Meredith Miller. We’ve been exploring how to foster faith that won’t tumble down around us or harm others.

Almost anything can bring up our pain, questions, or learnings from the journey of reimagining faith. Including friendly neighborhood heroes.

I was taught the rules were there to make us a stronger community, to guide all of us into being a more loving and truer expression of the Body of Christ. I thought the rules would protect me and my vulnerable friends. Until they didn’t.

How do we attend to our own grief when everyone around us is only numbing the pain?