by David Morris | Faith Deconstruction, Lake Drive Books News, Spiritual Writing
When the things you’ve believed your whole life no longer feel solid, it can be unsettling. Fear and isolation can set in, especially when the people around you don’t understand your questions, or worse, shame you for them. Lauren Cibene grew up in the...
by David Morris | Faith Deconstruction, Spiritual Writing
Do you know those “Bible in a year” reading plans? They map out daily readings, suggesting various parts of the Bible to read all in one day. A little Old Testament, a little Psalms, a little of the Gospels, a little New Testament. So after 365 days, you’ve read the...
by David Morris | Current Events, Faith Deconstruction
Lake Drive Books author Christa Brown recently published a Ms. Magazine article “Southern Baptists Pursue a Mission of Misogyny”. On the eve of the next annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention starting this Sunday, Brown calls out the SBC for...
by Lake Drive Reporter | Current Events, Faith Deconstruction, Lake Drive Books Events, Trauma Recovery
In a recent Zoom conversation, “Celebrating the Power of Truth Telling,” two leading voices in the fight against clergy sexual abuse—Christa Brown, author of Baptistland: A Memoir of Abuse, Betrayal, and Transformation, and Sarah Stankorb, author of...
by Mick Silva | Faith Deconstruction, Spiritual Writing
“There is an enormous number of people, and I am one of them, whose native religion, for better or worse, is Christianity. We were born to it; we began to learn about it before we became conscious; it is, whatever we think of it, an intimate belonging of our being; it...
by Trey Ferguson | Faith Deconstruction, Spiritual Writing
I’ve never needed to read the Bible for me to desire good. If I’d never encountered the Bible, I would still be repulsed by what my ancestors endured on the plantations of the Caribbean and the southern United States. I do not need to visit the canon of...
