Geoffrey Holsclaw
We don’t need to focus so much on balancing faith and doubt. We need to GET OUT OF OUR BRAINS and back into OUR BODIES. Or better, we need to realize that every brain is essentially embodied, flowing with emotions and embedded in relationships. Isn’t Enough Saying that we need a little more doubt […]
It’s OK to Go Back to a church, to community, to seeking, and trying—to trying to believe. To walk away to create distance for honest processing of disappointment, to admit that you don’t understand, to listen to others—that’s OK. And to return is OK too. Community is hard to leave. And it’s hard to return. […]
For all of us…it’s OK we’re asking questions while deconstructing. But can we ALSOs normalize BEING ASKED questions by others, of being REDIRECTED by those who have gone before us? Are we open to shifting our “AWAY FROM” to a NEW WAY? I’m saying this in the context of already acknowledging that sometimes we need […]
For those who need to hear it, let’s normalize the experience of God’s absence. It’s OK that you DON’T SEE Jesus as you deconstruct faith. And that might be a good thing—in the long run. You used to see Jesus everywhere, in everything…leading, working, guiding, providing. But now Jesus is gone, absent, invisible, missing. […]
For those who need to hear it, It’s OK to be Exasperated With, Frustrated By, and Not Understand this thing called Christianity, this thing called Faith, even this person called Jesus. Angry. Sad. Frustrated. Bewildered. Let down. Downcast. These are honest emotions and honest reactions when the church, theology, the Bible, and God gives you […]
For those who need to hear it, sometimes it is OK to walk away from your church, your community. It hurts too much to stay. But don’t walk alone. For the deep disappointment, disillusionment, and plain old discouragement, sometimes you need to get a little distance. Sometimes you need to walk it off. For […]
Pray. Read your Bible. Go to church—twice on Sundays. And don’t sin. Be sure not to sin. These were my devotions (as they were called). I was raised independent Bible Church baptist. So we didn’t do that “spiritual discipline” crap. Only the Catholics did that stuff while trying to “earn their salvation”—so I was told. But […]
Why do people experience the same situation so differently? Because we don’t respond to the world. We predict it. And how do we predict the world? Through past experience. Basically, people experience the same situation differently because they have different pasts. This is the focus of chapter 4 of Lisa Feldman Barrett’s new […]
