Hi, I'm Sarah, and I'm a recovering Jesus follower.
After growing up surrounded by the damage of patriarchy, purity culture, fundamentalism and evangelicalism, I broke up with the Church. I stopped going, got myself into all sorts of trouble (that's not worth going into detail here), and rejected everything I had grown up with.
It wasn't until I was nineteen that I found the real Jesus, not the bubble wrapped, pretty bow on top, pristine Jesus that I had grown up with, but the real, dangerous Jesus that doesn't mind my potty mouth and who loves my bold authenticity. It's been one hell of a ride since then. To make a long story short, He called me to Ireland, and after a couple years, I wound up on a plane headed for the Emerald Isle.
After uprooting my entire life to move to Ireland and work in youth ministry, most of my friends and supporters seemed to go completely silent once I moved here, and I found myself in completely new territory with no map or compass, so to speak. As rough as it has been, it's given me the chance to rebuild my life from the ground up.
This has also given me the space needed to take a step back and decide what I believe in without any outside influences. I have been able to dig deep and ask dangerous questions and not be reprimanded for it. I've picked apart every single thing I grew up with and have thrown it out with the bathwater, without rejecting Jesus. I hate what purity culture and fundamentalist Christianity did to me. But this is my journey towards healing from that, and finding the real Jesus of Nazareth.
I've also rediscovered my love of writing. This is my little space dedicated to explore more in depth of what that looks like, and to pen out whatever I'm wrestling with when it comes to theology and the Bible.
It's going to get uncomfortable, but feel free to join me on this journey.
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