• How Do I Connect with God Outside the Church? — The Spiritual Pathways Assessment

    One of the most disorienting experiences for me inside the church was when I started to sense that ways that I was feeling God’s closeness and direction were different than most people I was around, in church. The typical American church emphasizes language and ideas that create a perception that there are insiders and outsiders.…

  • How Letters to the Church Helped Me—and Where It Didn’t

    There are some books you read once and appreciate.And there are others that you come back to years later and appreciate even more. I first read Letters to the Church when it was released in 2018 and found it challenging and inspiring. I find it rare to resonate with a book as much or more…

  • How Building a Discipling Culture Helped Me—and Where It Didn’t

    There are a few books I return back to again and again. Building a Discipling Culture by Mike Breen is one of them. Not because it offers a perfect solution, and not because I agree with everything in it—but because it puts words to things many Christians feel and struggle to articulate. Especially those who…

  • Reconstructing Faith Without Losing Jesus

    If you’re here, there’s a good chance you didn’t stumble in casually. You’re probably carrying questions you didn’t go looking for.Maybe disappointment you didn’t expect.Maybe wounds you didn’t deserve. And yet—you’re still holding onto Jesus. That tension is the reason this site exists. Why Reconstructing Faith Is Necessary For many people, faith didn’t fall apart…