The Cost of Purity Rhetoric
My obsession with that unattainable purity led me to fear the only vessel I was given to experience this world.
My obsession with that unattainable purity led me to fear the only vessel I was given to experience this world.
Don’t you want it so so bad? Aren’t you willing to do the right things so you get to have it? Isn’t not having sex awful?
Regardless of how much I studied, read, and prayed, I would never be permitted to preach in front of a congregation.
While my purpose wasn’t the conversion of my coworker, I like that she might think about God’s interest in her life when she walks past the bananas.
If I’m miserable that means I must be doing something right.
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That’s what my favorite aspect of this journey has been: The choice to be vulnerable with someone else about your experiences and fears and dreams, when you have every option not to.
Rainy days have always felt exceedingly genuine.
Maybe he just wasn’t hungry enough. Maybe I am too hungry.
I remember thinking, with all the considerable certainty that a fifteen-year-old can muster, that if this doesn’t change us, nothing will.