1.0k 17 Comments Aug 10th How do I break up with my church community while maintaining friendships? I've been debating converting to Judaism for about seven years now, and I've finally decided to go for it. However, I'm pretty heavily involved in a Christian church community. Since it's a liberal denomination, I'm pretty confident I can maintain these friendships even if I tell them I want to be Jewish. But how do I nicely explain that I'm not a Christian and I'm looking to get my spiritual fix elsewhere? Read More 1.1k 14 Comments Jun 23rd How do you know when you're being different for the sake of being different? In my quest to be authentic to myself, I have to wonder — whether it’s something as major as changing faiths, or something as minor as choosing a hairstyle — how do you know when you’re being different for the sake of being a “special snowflake” and how do you know when you’re just being you? And more importantly, does it matter? Read More 1.3k 16 Comments Jun 7th Teaching my kid about God as an ex-fundamentalist "But Mama, what IS God?" Shit. I'm really not prepared for this conversation. For the majority of my life, I envisioned a future where this conversation with my kid would be welcome, and the answer given would be clear and certain. But the last half-decade has changed all that… Read More Aug 7th I thought I lost my faith until I found it in my kids It happened when I was 18. I was going to an all-girls Catholic college, and one morning — a particularly chilly late-autumn morning in Massachusetts — I looked up at the chapel, and I couldn't feel him. He was gone. It took a bit of adjusting. For 18 years I'd believed in him. To just stop, well, it was jarring. Read More 1.0k 44 Comments Jun 25th How do you decide which beliefs to pass on to your child? While discussing all things family related with my fiancee, we were debating whether or not we should raise the kids vegan (I'm vegan, she's not) or according to my religious beliefs (she's agnostic and doesn't follow anything specifically). For us, as a queer couple, this opens some interesting dialogue because if we end up adopting and those kids are older, we don't necessarily feel right imposing beliefs on someone who is of an age where they can make their own decisions. Read More 123…9
1.1k 14 Comments Jun 23rd How do you know when you're being different for the sake of being different? In my quest to be authentic to myself, I have to wonder — whether it’s something as major as changing faiths, or something as minor as choosing a hairstyle — how do you know when you’re being different for the sake of being a “special snowflake” and how do you know when you’re just being you? And more importantly, does it matter? Read More 1.3k 16 Comments Jun 7th Teaching my kid about God as an ex-fundamentalist "But Mama, what IS God?" Shit. I'm really not prepared for this conversation. For the majority of my life, I envisioned a future where this conversation with my kid would be welcome, and the answer given would be clear and certain. But the last half-decade has changed all that… Read More Aug 7th I thought I lost my faith until I found it in my kids It happened when I was 18. I was going to an all-girls Catholic college, and one morning — a particularly chilly late-autumn morning in Massachusetts — I looked up at the chapel, and I couldn't feel him. He was gone. It took a bit of adjusting. For 18 years I'd believed in him. To just stop, well, it was jarring. Read More 1.0k 44 Comments Jun 25th How do you decide which beliefs to pass on to your child? While discussing all things family related with my fiancee, we were debating whether or not we should raise the kids vegan (I'm vegan, she's not) or according to my religious beliefs (she's agnostic and doesn't follow anything specifically). For us, as a queer couple, this opens some interesting dialogue because if we end up adopting and those kids are older, we don't necessarily feel right imposing beliefs on someone who is of an age where they can make their own decisions. Read More 123…9
1.3k 16 Comments Jun 7th Teaching my kid about God as an ex-fundamentalist "But Mama, what IS God?" Shit. I'm really not prepared for this conversation. For the majority of my life, I envisioned a future where this conversation with my kid would be welcome, and the answer given would be clear and certain. But the last half-decade has changed all that… Read More Aug 7th I thought I lost my faith until I found it in my kids It happened when I was 18. I was going to an all-girls Catholic college, and one morning — a particularly chilly late-autumn morning in Massachusetts — I looked up at the chapel, and I couldn't feel him. He was gone. It took a bit of adjusting. For 18 years I'd believed in him. To just stop, well, it was jarring. Read More 1.0k 44 Comments Jun 25th How do you decide which beliefs to pass on to your child? While discussing all things family related with my fiancee, we were debating whether or not we should raise the kids vegan (I'm vegan, she's not) or according to my religious beliefs (she's agnostic and doesn't follow anything specifically). For us, as a queer couple, this opens some interesting dialogue because if we end up adopting and those kids are older, we don't necessarily feel right imposing beliefs on someone who is of an age where they can make their own decisions. Read More 123…9
Aug 7th I thought I lost my faith until I found it in my kids It happened when I was 18. I was going to an all-girls Catholic college, and one morning — a particularly chilly late-autumn morning in Massachusetts — I looked up at the chapel, and I couldn't feel him. He was gone. It took a bit of adjusting. For 18 years I'd believed in him. To just stop, well, it was jarring. Read More 1.0k 44 Comments Jun 25th How do you decide which beliefs to pass on to your child? While discussing all things family related with my fiancee, we were debating whether or not we should raise the kids vegan (I'm vegan, she's not) or according to my religious beliefs (she's agnostic and doesn't follow anything specifically). For us, as a queer couple, this opens some interesting dialogue because if we end up adopting and those kids are older, we don't necessarily feel right imposing beliefs on someone who is of an age where they can make their own decisions. Read More 123…9
1.0k 44 Comments Jun 25th How do you decide which beliefs to pass on to your child? While discussing all things family related with my fiancee, we were debating whether or not we should raise the kids vegan (I'm vegan, she's not) or according to my religious beliefs (she's agnostic and doesn't follow anything specifically). For us, as a queer couple, this opens some interesting dialogue because if we end up adopting and those kids are older, we don't necessarily feel right imposing beliefs on someone who is of an age where they can make their own decisions. Read More 123…9