Tag: Christianity
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The Age of Unlearning
The thing that stands out to me now, as I reflect on my childhood and early adulthood, was that I was enmeshed with those who held authority in my denomination. To be honest, I expect I had rose-coloured glasses on
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validate me, validate me not
By Miriam E. Miles
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Humble pie
I have become quite uncomfortable with the level of humility God seems to want me to experience.
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Fake it Till you Make it
‘Just fake it till you make it’, they say, but who really lives this idiom? Spoiler alert – as far as I know, no one does. Definitely not me. I get it though. It’s sometimes worth giving ourselves a pep talk, shooting from the hip
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Excuse Me, But Which Way to Encounter God?
I’ve been reflecting lately on the way we relate to God and what the experience of having a relationship with him might really be like if we move beyond the standard metrics we’ve come to accept.
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Keeping the Faith in Unsafe Places
As a 21st Century Christian living in a country that prioritises religious freedom, it’s a common understanding that community is paramount to growth;
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Be Imperfect
There’s a reason we’re all still here – why we don’t get swept up to heaven the second we become Christians. It’s because we still need each other. We grow when we connect, tune in, and love on each other. We expand our humanity when we open up, become vulnerable to trusted family and friends,…
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The power of thinking for yourself
When we believe someone or something has authority over us, we find ourselves saying we ‘have to, we must, we should, we ought to’. We are giving this something or someone else the power over our time, energy, resources and directio
Miriam E. Miles 