Tag: church
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Escape! How I left Evangelicalism
In my last entry, I wrote that I would post about the three types of reasons I left the evangelical* campus church I attended while in university—intellectual reasons, moral-political reasons, and reasons having to do with sexuality and lifestyle. I’ve decided to forgo that post and go a slightly different direction. You, the reader, can…
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Isolating Church, Liberating Education – The Early College Years
by Justin Marquis Previous Post – My So-Called Faith The beginning of my studies at Purdue University was a time of intensifying my commitment to my Evangelical Christian faith. My high school part-time job had been working at the public library, first as a page and then as a clerk. A lot of my high…
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My So-Called Faith
by Justin Marquis Previous Post – How Could I not Be Grateful for My Whole Life? Everyone, I believe, has those memories of youth that are difficult to remember because of how embarrassed we are of our younger selves, things we did that are so cringe-worthy in their immaturity, their naivety, even their stupidity that…
