You’re handling this criticism quite gracefully. Glad to hear that you’re happy now and things worked out. I also found the UCC church after a very different Christian experience and it is lovely! “God is still speaking” is a terrific message. Good luck to you and thanks for this essay.

Lots of us share your journey. Granted mine started 20 years ago, but we share your journey from fundamentalism to progressive Christianity.

I grew up in a UCC and it made me the person I am today (which isn’t very religious but I appreciate the radical LOVE that happens there). Congrats for finding a spiritual community :)

Well, now that I go to a UCC church, I know what a real liberal church is like. You have to understand though, that I had no idea until about a year ago that the denomination even existed. I didn’t know what a real liberal church even was, because I have never been exposed to a faith like that. It’s been a crazy…

What can I say? There’s a lot of validity in the arguments here, but when you’re under a lot of financial pressure with two small kids (husband working a shitty warehouse job, on food stamps) you think you’re willing to compromise more than you actually are. We had no idea what was in the contract until we were…

I’ve never seen this before. Apparently, I’m very sheltered. But in a good, liberal, socialist Canadian kind of way. lol

Wow, you’re impressively gracious. I expected to read “STFU, jerk”. Which for the record would have been a totally acceptable response.

Wow. Really? So once a parent has children, they aren’t allowed to change careers (or even jobs) at all? I can’t tell if you’re trolling, or you legitimately think that her husband is bad for wanting to become a teacher.

A friend of mine, who was contemplating divorce so much she actually had the papers drawn up, posted the umbrella image about a year later. All I could do was

So you’ve never interviewed and taken a job based on what you’ve been told of the company culture, only to find out they sugar coated things and made it seem better than it is?

This is like the Jersey Shore all over again. Stop blaming us for people from other states.

At least we got pork roll (or Taylor ham, as the weirdos up north apparently call it).

But she’s not from NJ. She’s from Maine. She just flew into Newark.

Today in Kate Hudson news: She only works out 20 minutes a day, and her son’s friends have asked how old she is.

Those are all scary movies!

David Allen Grier can sing? I’m LOVING that they gave the lion locs, but that vest is heinous.

It most certainly was NOT edited after your comment, GTFO.

This girl sang the song of my people. Fly free, you barefooted and much more comfortable angel.

I sincerely love it when you guys publish articles that exist for the sole purpose of making people irrationally OUTRAGED.