It seems fitting to post this today, on Mother’s Day. When I re-read this entry from my week six of my Questioning Faith Journal now (three years after I originally wrote it) I still mean every word. The best thing I have ever done in my life is give birth to Firstborn and Secondborn. Because of them, I authentically know how a parent should and can love: with wild, unfettered,…
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The “Christian” Value of Righteousness Above Relationship (6-1)
This entry is from Week 6 of my Questioning Faith Journal, which I wrote during a year of allowing myself to question evangelical Christianity and my place in it. I have gone back and removed the woman’s real name from the entry as I’m not sure it serves a lasting positive purpose to name her. The point of my writing was that her choices starkly revealed a behavior/belief of my…
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Coming Out of the Closet, Or Not (3-2)
For all of you who are telling me you feel fake and you aren’t sure, either, if you are a Christian because of the Bible – I get you. Maybe you aren’t sure about coming out of the closet yet. It’s okay to hold silent while you figure things out. Here’s an entry from my Questioning Faith journal where I was doing just that. It was written not very long after my amazing father-in-love, James D. Seitz, finished his battle with Parkinson’s Disease. At the time, I was the head of a non-profit whose mission was to make movies, books, and TV shows embedded with culture-enriching values (which was often mistaken to mean solely “Christian” values). Week…
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Life Everlasting – Here or There? (2-4b)
A deep area of anguish for me in leaving Christianity (as I’d been taught it) was losing the promise of “life everlasting” – that is, life in heaven after death. I’ve hesitated to share the following entry from my journal because it is so intensely personal, moreso even than what I’ve shared thus far. But the time for cowardice is not today. So, for now, for whomever it serves, here’s…
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Unfriending In Freedom (1-2)
This post from my Questioning Faith journal on Week 1, Day 2 contains some foul language. Early in my journey, there was a lot of freedom in writing these kinds of words on the screen. It felt like a release to use words that were right for what I was trying to communicate. Please also remember that I was writing under the notion that there is no alternative for “Bible-Believing…
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