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Audrey Assad on Faith, Deconstruction, and Music as an Outlet for Spiritual Angst

The Sacred

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The Importance of Recognizing Ecstatic Experiences

I think often we feel like those two things can't cohabit it. We're temporarily to try and permanently draw more to one than the other. With someone who actually quite likes structure and rigor and grounding things, we might be drawn more to institutional religion. I really value, I sort of lean my faith expression is sort of a kind of charismatic Pentecostal Christianity in it. And I like the fact that I can have those ecstatic emotional experiences, but have them in a container of ritual and community and accountability.

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