“Take the word saved as it is used in the evangelical vernacular. It’s true, you are saved by grace, by love, by light … but it’s only half the story. The truth is that there is so much that you’re not saved from. You are not saved from pain or loneliness or the bite of reality sharp against your skin. You’re not… — Addie Zierman Copy Share
“Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“It's not, of course, the perfect term. *Reform* suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“The "new evangelical" wears skinny jeans and earrings made from recycled beer caps. After all, she is acquiring a taste for Blue Moon and Chardonnay. She lives in a loft in the city and grows organic vegetables on her balcony because the earth belongs to God, and she wants to take care of it...She tries to keep things clean, language-wise,… — Addie Zierman Copy Share
“Yes, faith is like being born again. But it is also not like being born again. Unlike the newborn infant, the new Christian has memory, memory that spans back into the darkness from which he came. He is not so much born as waking … every moment to new realities. To a new way of looking at humanity. To grace and to… — Addie Zierman Copy Share
“Take the word saved as it is used in the evangelical vernacular. It’s true, you are saved by grace, by love, by light … but it’s only half the story. The truth is that there is so much that you’re not saved from. You are not saved from pain or loneliness or the bite of reality sharp against your skin. You’re not… — Addie Zierman Copy Share
“I Love You." He whispers is over and over, whispers it into my skin until the words make me shiver and my broken soul… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“I am crying because the alcohol has stripped away everything that was holding me together.” — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“You have learned that it is impossible to divide things neatly, and that the second you begin to define something, you limit it. There… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“He laughed, and he made me laugh, and it was because his relationship to his faith was not a do-or-die mission but something life-giving… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“[His faith] was a hundred small perfect steps that in the end can never add up to dance ... not the kind I wanted,… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires. I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“I was at the part of self-exploration where you have to be surrounded with miscellanea in all of its diversity in order to figure… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the brain is… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
“Your life AFTER Christ is not static or an end result. You are not suspended in grace above the fray of life. You are… — Addie Zierman Copy Share Image
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