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Do I Stay Christian? Exploring a Question for Our Time
Many Christians today are wrestling with the question, Do I Stay Christian?—especially as faith and politics become more intertwined. In this blog, David Youngren explore why so many are struggling with doubt, how Brian McLaren’s book Do I Stay Christian? offers an insightful perspective, and why David wrote my book, Life Ascending, to help reimagine Jesus’ message beyond institutional religion.
Is Science Catching Up to Ancient Wisdom?
Modern physics is revealing a fundamental truth long taught by Jesus and ancient spiritual traditions: oneness. Discover how quantum entanglement, the observer effect, and wave-particle duality suggest that reality is deeply interconnected—aligning with Jesus’ teachings on divine unity. Could science be rediscovering what spirituality has always known?
How to See the Miraculous in Everyday Life
It was 4:20 a.m. when a faint beep cut through the silence, stirring me from sleep. The fridge door had been left slightly ajar. Rubbing my eyes, I rose from bed and navigated through the dark toward the kitchen.
Reclaiming Your Calm When Stressed
The storm raged on the Sea of Galilee, tossing the boat violently as the disciples battled the wind and waves. Panic gripped them. The sea, once a source of livelihood, now threatened their very lives. In their desperation, they turned to Jesus, who lay asleep despite the chaos.
The Silent Pulse of the Universe
Unconditional love is the silent melody playing beneath the chaos of existence, a timeless and universal truth that unites everything in creation. It is not simply an emotion or fleeting sentiment but the essence of life itself—a boundless energy flowing through all things, animating and sustaining the universe.
Why Kindness Is Never Wasted
In these last few days before Christmas, kindness has been on my mind. Maybe because kindness is love made visible, and that is the heart of the Christmas story.
Sin will take one down a road of destruction, shame, and defamation. So many folks hide behind masks to cover up sins while pretending to be someone they’re not. Many don’t practice what they preach, they talk but don’t walk the walk. I am a woman preacher and I am the ‘other woman.’
I had an affair with a married man. I walked into this ain willingly.
I was not the pursuer. I was not the initiator. I was not the one to bring the marriage to an end. I was not the villain, to put it mildly,as I was made to be. I was not the woman who stole her best friend’s husband. I was not ‘that’ woman.
As I got deeper into the affair with the married man, preacher of the cloth, we both knew we were playing with fire.
I made countless attempts to discouraged him away from me, and I wanted him to make it work with his wife but nothing I said mattered. I would constantly tell him I was not worth him losing everything and he would say he had nothing to lose. He was dead set against leaving me alone and wanted the affair to continue. We had long talks about what this would do to the church,our families, our children, our parents, our friends, and the wife if we were found out.
This may sound eerie, but whenever we came together it was great, but when it was all over we would pray and ask God for forgiveness. We would ask God to punish us, not our children or the ones we loved. The one thing I was not about to do was to go to church and hide behind a mask and pretend I am holier than thou.
Either I will be real with you or not.I wouldn’t be two-faced. We both talked-about what will take place once our affair hits the fan. Once the divorce is finalized and the waiting period is over we would marry. Sounds simple but it wasn’t…
It’s been a long road to recovery to get accepted by ‘church folks.’ I’ve sought God’s repentance, but folks want forgive. This is my second marriage. The first one lasted 21 years. My husband had an affair and verbally, mentally, physically, and sexually abused me.I know the pain of ‘the other woman’ syndrome first hand.
Did I set out to get revenge? No! There were factors that lead up to me being in the arms of a married man. I am not proud of what I’ve done and if given the chance to do over, I would definitely do things different. Some people will forgive the worst of sina, but I found some will not forgive ‘the other woman.’