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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

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As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for ...more

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The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or s...more

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We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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‎You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's c...more

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...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the su...more

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My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhausted and depressed beyond words, and I don't like ...more

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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and...more

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A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I...more

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We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them,...more

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Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

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I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I could be. There are parts I don’t love—until a few years ago, I had no idea that you could have cellu...more

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Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside...more