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What does it look like to create your own spiritual lexicon? Honestly, there really isn’t a straightforward answer to that. Maybe you come up with new words you…
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“A Suspension of Disbelief,” excerpted from “Lost and Found in the Cathedral of Cinema: A Spiritual Journey”
I grew up in overlapping communities—a Baptist church and an evangelical Christian school—within which I was often cautioned or even commanded to stay away from “worldly” preoccupations. But I was…
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4 Half-Truths American Christians Have About Land
Adaptation from Every Somewhere Sacred by Ben Norquist and Brian Miller American Christians have some uniquely American myths about land. With the historically unique relationship of Americans to land, and…
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We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity, an excerpt
When I was in my twenties, I finally acknowledged that my faith was breaking. For years, my belief in the God of the Bible and Jesus’s love had sustained me and…