Welcome to my blog! I write for discouraged Evangelicals looking for a deeper experience of God. Here I share my thoughts about faith, doubt, deconstruction and recovering my Christian faith.
Recent Posts
“Suck it Up. That’s the Circle of Life, Kid.”
I never liked the phrase ‘that’s just the circle of life’. It always came as the response to the sadness I felt while grieving the death of a kitten abandoned…
Read moreMonastery II | New Skete Monastery, NY
Strike Two. My Second Monastery Visit is (Mostly) a Dud. It only took my second failed attempt to see a monastery to figure it out: monasteries are often closed to…
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Permission to Launch
I’ve delayed and put off writing for so long. I need to leave the nest. Safe in the comfort of my surroundings, I have avoided the tug from my heart…
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Monastery I | Carthusian Charterhouse of the Transfiguration, VT
My very first monastery visit was a let down. I was so excited, this was going to be my first visit to a monastery! Expectations are a slippery thing, more…
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I Am Tired (*Unfiltered*)
Despair was taking over. My questions and doubts were mounting and no one around me seemed to understand. I couldn’t fake it anymore. All I could do was write. This…
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Garden of Nectarios 