When our souls are overwhelmed, the human temptation is self-isolation, to turn inward, not outward. There’s a strange comfort we find in withdrawing from a believing community during times of unbelief or uncertainty. Doubt can create the feeling that “I’m on the outside, and these people can’t understand or relate.” This feeling is almost always the product of perception, not conversation. It usually comes from looking at a whole group of people and categorically making assumptions about them, not the repeated experience of voicing our doubts humbly, honestly, and vulnerably to individuals in
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