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The beliefs, doubts, and moments that anchor us. · 2 posts

@sarahkim · Aug 20

The prayer I didn't want answered

For two years I prayed for a way out of teaching. The grading, the meetings, the invisible progress — I was done. I prayed for a door, any door. — The door that opened was a student named Marcus, who stayed after class to tell me my World History unit was the reason he stopped skipping school. "You…

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James Whitfield

@jameswhitfield · Aug 16

✦ A tribute to Gene Halvorsen

The pastor who let me doubt

I was twenty-four, in seminary, and quietly falling apart — because the more I studied, the less certain I became, and I thought certainty was the job. — Gene was seventy, had pastored the same small church for thirty years, and when I finally confessed my doubts he laughed — warmly — and said,…

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