In my town, there is a large mega-evangelical church.  I don’t respect the church, but the pastor had a good idea that he took to the bank.  He wrote a book about “My One Word.”  My One Word is something the pastor encouraged members to do each year.  Instead of making New Year’s resolutions, you choose a word to live by for the year.  I decided to…[Read more]

I got thrown into an IFB Christian school at age 5.  My parents thought it would be “safe”.  After all, the school was run by “Grace Baptist”.

It was anything but.

I’m now 36 and I’m crawling out of a hole of shame and unworthiness to find myself a person of infinite and inherent worth.  I fight every day.

I consider myself a progressive C…[Read more]