Sara Billups is a Seattle-based writer and cultural commentator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Christianity Today, Ekstasis, and others. Sara writes Bitter Scroll, a monthly Substack letter. She is completing her Doctor of Ministry in the Sacred Art of Writing at the Peterson Center for the Christian Imagination at Western Theological Seminary. Today, Sara shares about her 90’s youth group kid upbringing, moving to Seattle and finding a devastated church, and the dark season when she compartmentalized her faith. Sara’s story reminds us that while the spiritual desert is isolating, community is the best way through.
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Great quotes from Sara
If I actually believed the Christian story, I needed to make a change.
There are seasons when the people who love us carry us.
It doesn’t do any good to burn things down but I do think we need to talk about this stuff.
Being faithful to a congregation through many waves, throughout decades is a really interesting place to sit and I’m grateful that I can.
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