Melissa Corrick’s Reviews > Road Away from God: How Love Finds Us Even as We Walk Away > Status Update

The long-term community the disciples would form would need a broader basis than shared hurt. There would also be an element of shared joy.

I am personally convinced that the Jesus a lot of people are walking away from is not Jesus at all, as the only Jesus I recognize now is an oppressed, persecuted, brown skinned man who was trampled by an empire, not a mascot who was invented for one. But nothing about what you see on your road can be dictated, for this is very much your path, and the path must be trusted, and you must be trusted to walk it.

“Sometimes for vocational reasons or out of familial or social pressure, people haven’t left the building, but their hearts checked out a long time ago, and they’ve been walking the road for years without ever leaving the city limits. I don’t think there is a more solitary, lonely feeling than that.”

“It was a life of constant examination and fear. As it is for most people, that sort of rigid devotional intensity was not sustainable.”