Mystery and Change
Reading Luke’s Step Three, we see how Luke’s spiritual life looks different than when he was younger. Reflect on your own experience with mystery and change while still holding some connection with your past through your family or hometown.
Music, Questions, and Intuition
Reading Luke’s Step Two, we see how church music, open-ended questions, and intuition helped save his life. Reflect on your own experience with these powerful tools for transformation.
Swimming With the Tide
In Luke’s Step One, we read that he learned to swim with the tide to stay alive within the system as a child. We all live within a specific context and learn through observations as children. Reflect on the worldview and community that raised you.
Hypocrisy and Foolishness
From Luke’s background, we can see how he struggled with cognitive dissonance when church leaders preached one thing but behaved altogether differently. Think back on your own experience, calling to mind the moments you felt seen and the moments you felt confused.
Spiritual Practices that Move Us Forward
Frances’ Step Three shows us a woman moving forward, bravely blazing her spiritual journey. Reflect on how you move forward in faith.
The Images of God We Keep
As we see in Frances’ Step Two, Frances’ faith offered solace and strength to survive a difficult childhood. Although she may have given up Catholic doctrine, she retained an image of God who cares deeply for her and knows her pain.
Public Faithfulness and Secret-Keeping
Frances’ family treated faith in public as the highest good. What others thought of the family was akin to God’s approval of the family’s faithfulness. Reflect on how family perception impacted the beliefs you received.
Growing Up with Parents’ Complicated Faith
Frances’ background shows us how much our parents’ mistakes can impact our faith journey. Reflect on your childhood to wonder about the intersection between the beliefs you received and the faith you saw lived out in your parents.
When the Journey Has Mattered Most
Reflecting on times the journey has been more significant than the destination
How you felt when at church as a teen
Reflecting on how you felt at church as a young person
Calling and dreams when you were a teenager
Reflecting on your sense of calling as a teenager