Healing Conversations

Being a classic Enneagram 3 (hyper-aware of the opinions of others and constantly seeking approval), I’m not totally sure I would’ve started a deconstruction journey if my friends hadn’t. I was surrounded with BFFs on staff at a church who started asking big questions and challenging long-held assumptions, and because it was not taboo to do so in that friendship circle, I too let my brain off the leash. But what are you meant to do when you start having questions and doubts,

Deconstruction has been somewhat of a buzz word in religious spaces for many years now, and along with a million definitions, there can be found a million different opinions about it; it's good and right, it's wrong and bad - and everything in between. I prefer to term my own deconstruction journey as a renegotiation of my faith - it feels like a forward-moving, positive, growth term instead of a 'set fire and watch it burn' kind of thing. About 20-years ago (good lord, feeli

By Deb Hargrove We got given a pool this summer and it has CHANGED MY LIFE!! It’s nothing flash, a well-loved above-ground pool, but it...

By Deb Hargrove I didn’t grow up in a church that ever really took much notice of the church calendar, apart from Easter and Christmas,...

By Deb Hargrove For Valentine’s Day this year, Caleb bought the 500-piece puzzle version of the Jaws movie poster for us to do together....

By Deb Hargrove From as early as I can remember, I have wanted to be important – like celebrity grade important. The best way to achieve...

By Deb Hargrove There have been several occasions over the past five and a half years that Caleb and I have started a conversation about...