March 14, 2021 6:30pm PST
Melissa Inouye on “God’s Sandbox: Believing and Belonging in a Big, Broken World”

When life gets scary and overwhelming, they say, turn to God–to faith–to Church. So I did this, and what happened? Everything got 99.98 times scarier and more overwhelming. When society blows you this way and that, they say, cleave fast to the gospel culture. So I did this, and what happened? The thing I was clutching swelled enormously, then exploded in a thousand different directions. So when death came for me, I sat down in God’s hellish sandbox and wept. And my sisters and brothers crept in, weeping, and sat. And sat. 

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