You have the right to change your mind. Don’t let anybody make you think you don’t. It is a God-given right & the essence of repentance. You have the right to reconsider, to study the fruit of any tree, search your own soul & take an honest look at how you’ve been indoctrinated.

The story is too long for a Twitter thread and, truly, Twitter is not worthy of our deepest, most personal stories. But in hopes that someone might find encouragement, I’ll say this much. 4 1/2 years ago some events shocked me so jarringly that I was forced to stare a number of

very troubling realities in the face. Then I started digging at the roots. They weren’t pretty & neither was I. I don’t know where I belong anymore except I belong with Jesus. I belong in His Word. I belong in a local church. But I no longer belong to a system. I changed my mind.

These four years have been brutal. But I promise you this. Not nearly as brutal as they would have been had I stayed complicit and kept my mouth shut. I figure one day it will all be clear enough to put it on paper but I’m still on the journey for now. I’ll conclude with this:

I may have had the naivety shocked out of me but I can tell you what held: the gospel. I have never been more certain that Jesus is the only answer and all that makes sense of this world. The Way. The Truth. And the love of my life.