Loved this post, Kaitlin. Especially this sentence:
“I don’t know how to reconcile any of that.”
I find the less sure of myself (and my own beliefs and experiences) I am, the more empathetic I can become to others. Once I grew comfortable with the feeling of not knowing I was right about everything, I grew to value living in the gray areas of life.
Not having all the answers (and being vulnerable enough to say so) is a strength.
This is why I so appreciate a platform like Substack- my suspicion is that most of us live in the gray and know it- but the headlines of traditional media demand we pick a black or white stance and ignore nuance. Human beings are complicated. There is right and wrong but I believe it’s a spectrum with a lot of layers. Thank you for this reminder. 🙏
This was such an oddly timely read for me, I had a friend who I've not kept in great touch with recently who put that Mama Bear Apologetics book on her baby shower registry. I went through this same mental/emotional process you described here; this friend and I grew up in the same evangelical church but have gone very different ways. Thanks for this post, always encouraging us to sit with the complexity and the discomfort that comes with it.
Loved this post, Kaitlin. Especially this sentence:
“I don’t know how to reconcile any of that.”
I find the less sure of myself (and my own beliefs and experiences) I am, the more empathetic I can become to others. Once I grew comfortable with the feeling of not knowing I was right about everything, I grew to value living in the gray areas of life.
Not having all the answers (and being vulnerable enough to say so) is a strength.
This is why I so appreciate a platform like Substack- my suspicion is that most of us live in the gray and know it- but the headlines of traditional media demand we pick a black or white stance and ignore nuance. Human beings are complicated. There is right and wrong but I believe it’s a spectrum with a lot of layers. Thank you for this reminder. 🙏
I've been wrestling with this complexity too. Thank you for holding space for nuance as resistance.
This was such an oddly timely read for me, I had a friend who I've not kept in great touch with recently who put that Mama Bear Apologetics book on her baby shower registry. I went through this same mental/emotional process you described here; this friend and I grew up in the same evangelical church but have gone very different ways. Thanks for this post, always encouraging us to sit with the complexity and the discomfort that comes with it.