Sadly, this is just normal life with a narcissist. Apologies to the world.

We are in the dumbest possible timeline.

I'm in the same boat. With 2 kids in college and 4 still at home, this is the year my youngest finally starts kindergarten and we had planned that I would begin to pursue my own education. If Pell grants are gone, all 3 of us will be making really hard decisions.

Accurate. This is exactly it.

Hi! I met you when you spoke at Restore last year and am happy to see you made the jump over here!

We ended up in a church where our pastors have experienced spiritual abuse and know what it's like. The random person in the pew still comes at these issues with trite answers, but I'm able to give people the benefit of the doubt, at least. There are very few churches I'll go to at this point.

Daniel Nayeri, Wade Mullin, Diane Langberg, Jemar Tisby, Philip Yancey...

You're welcome! We're all doing the same thing, trying to find and add all the people we had elsewhere. Very relatable!

Maybe Rev. Benjamin Cremer?

Until this week when our family was connected locally with a new Southeast African church (comprised largely of refugee and immigrant families in our area.) He makes all things new.

Trusting Jesus, and also wondering if you're the only sucker still actually *doing* this love and justice thing that it seemed like we all used to agree on.

Related: Maybe a moratorium on exporting this globally through missions would be wise?? White evangelicals in America need to take a minute.

Yes! People who claim to support abuse survivors, wondering how Christian churches and orgs could prioritize a church or a mission over human beings... Just turned around and voted those exact values. Yet another win for abusive men in leadership, on a national scale. Nowhere feels safe.

Shhh, Scott. He might hear you. This is the Good Place.

I'm interested in collaborative efforts to empower and support the marginalized, and I love to follow what others are doing to make a difference! Hope is contagious ❤️