I’m Brandon, creator of Crucible of Thought, and now author of (draft) Perfect Love, Perfect Fear: How the Religion of Love Gave Me Fear as Its Tool. You’ll find bits of my story here on the blog, and much more living in the book. I found myself on the outside of institutional religion in 2021, and the last few years have been a process of rethinking and rebuilding my relationship with God and the church.
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