My church put on this face of, ‘We love everybody and we’re all about grace.’ That was always the message. But when I started confessing to people in church, ‘I’m dealing with this right now, it’s really hard for me, I don’t know what to do,’ the only thing that they could seem to think about was how to convert me back to their way of thinking: ‘Well, you’re wrong, because we already know the answer.’ Nobody was like, ‘Okay, let’s just talk through this. It’s your life, and whatever you decide we’ll still care about you.’
The facade of “progressive” churches
