Essay

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  The Long Way Back

  I used to dread repentance—not the idea of it, but the repetition. The same sins, the same prayers, the same quiet shame of coming back again for something I had already brought to God before. It felt like failure. Worse, it felt like something was broken. If repentance worked, why wasn’t I changing? What I…

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  “Amen”

  As a Christian, I was always dissatisfied with the common use of the term ‘Amen’. I never felt that I understood what it meant, and the answers I received when I asked about it all fell short. It was never enough for me to know that ‘Amen’ meant ‘I agree’ or ‘I agree that this…

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