“There’s so much pressure to be good and holy that we get scared of all the parts of us that aren’t.”Tagged: Religion, Evangelicalism
“When I talked with students who were trying to get as far as they could from their childhood religion, they often confessed to feeling guilty or ashamed about their rebellion. I would say thank God—thank some better God—for your rebelliousness. It’s a cry of truth from inside you. It’s a kind of…”Tagged: Religion, Evangelicalism, Doubt, Faith
“For me, and for a lot of the Christian college students I’ve gotten to know over the years, the constant pressure to love God and to be a certain way for God leads you to judge yourself a spiritual failure. It’s never God’s fault that you don’t feel close. Preachers will say ‘God is always reaching…”Tagged: Religion, Spirituality, God, Spiritual abuse, Evangelicalism