I focused on the tree on purpose. You can’t really tell, but the leaves are falling at a steady place, the season of change is in full swing

When my husband first turned away from Faith, my greatest fear was how it might affect my young children.

“My response is more holy than my opinion or solution…or the very opposite if I’m not careful.”

I feel duped. I bumped into old doctrine today that made me pause. How can I reconcile the theology I am learning with what I once knew?

When I finally realized that doctrine held little weight to my skeptical husband, I was free to surrender…

My best conversations about God with my teen is when I have to say, ‘I don’t know’. God isn’t misrepresented, and my teen stays present.

I often speak too hastily, too much, too flippantly…then the task ahead is a matter of undoing. Yet, there’s no such thing as unhearing.

For the first time in my life, I entered a season of church division a few months ago (although, I divided myself from the Orthodox Church

This quote kinda blew me away. In those early days of my husband’s deconversion, I defended and fought and demanded he listen….

Leaning into mystery and accepting The Way because “Jesus said so” is a liberating thing. ❤️

When my husband first deconverted, I was in a mindset of fear…surrounded by people who gave the devil and demons way too much credit.

It’s easy to take Scripture for face value. If I absorb this for myself in my broken relationships, and think that my love is wrong…

There is a difference between viewing someone as a sinner versus as a sheep

We say, “Lord have mercy”, and I never thought of mercy as an action before. Even though the having makes it so.

This theology has stuck with me lately. It’s difficult to believe when we are faced with a world that buys into dangerous ideals

Manufactured Christianity has stung me most lately, and this commentary about Mark 13:14-23 in the Orthodox Study Bible grabbed my...

Sometimes I have no words. I turn to Scripture, and I am gifted the words of my heart’s cry. I cannot put it any better than this:

As I have wrestled these past weeks, I realize how one of the greatest obstacles to authentic Christian representation of our time is

Besides the very real pandemic fog, the survival mode within my walls, the struggle to step outside of the walls at times, I did not...