
To Embrace Uncertainty (#27)
You Have Permission
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What Comes After Permission?
Powell: What comes after permission is the continuation of a life of faith, hopefully less burdened by whatever was laid on you by people in your faith community earlier in life. After leaving our church, years of feeling like a partial heretic have left a certain mark on me. But it might not have been possible for me personally to stay in those communities and to also robustly feel the pain of that ongoing partial rejection. It's just that my own increasing realization that letting myself feel my feelings coincided with leaving the church. And I'm grateful actually to be able to think through this and answer it here.
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