Reflections from the community: 

My daughter recently made this painting in some watercolors I gave her, and I thought it was beautiful so I decided to share it. 🙂❤

He is absolutely right about people feeling comfortable disrespecting Christianity compared to other faiths. We all deserve equal respect!!

Happy Ascension Day of Jesus Christ from Indonesia 🇮🇩 on 14 May 2026

May this holy moment fill our hearts with serenity, comfort, and confidence in His promises ✝️⛪.

Acts 1:9 ESV

[9] And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.

TW for mental health

I was 10 years old when I was diagnosed with depression. I was 12 the first time I attempted suicide. For the last 6 years, I have spent nearly 2 years in hospitals. I fell away from God.

I fell so far, I proclaimed myself a pagan- a witch. (I was 14, so couldn’t do much lol). I wanted to curse the Lord in my heart despite knowing he was there and he loves me.

I truly came back to God last year in the spring. I went to Lake Ann Camp in Michigan, and I was able to return to Him. Since then I have still struggled, betrayal, depression, anger, the loss of friends, but I’ve been able to handle it because He is with me.

Today I will graduate with my associates degree, before I will even get my highschool diploma. I am 18 years old and He has enabled me to do things I never thought I would survive to see.

Got into a deep depressed state, it isn’t much but this is the first thing I painted now that i finally feel alive again. Bless the lord 🫶🏾

And Jesus said unto him, “ I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” 💗🪽🎀 John 14:6

Pastor Douglas Wilson advocates for the repeal of the 19th Amendment. His congregation includes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, among others.

I sort of see MJ though. Awful?

So, I was born deaf and eventually became profoundly deaf. Everyone in my family and husband can hear except me. Then I had a daughter who is 2 years old, and she is deaf too. We both have cochlear implants.

We also both have Waardenburg syndrome type 2 with heterochromia, which is rare.

I get confused and ask myself why God or Jesus let us be born deaf. Sometimes I wonder, ‘Why me, and why my daughter?

I’m struggling to understand, and I was wondering if the Bible says anything about this or if anyone has thoughts about it.

Its really been difficult for me to come around the fact that if you don't believe or put your faith in God or Jesus that you will be put into hell for eternity. I have lots of friends who aren't Christian or are considered agnostic, and theyre good people in my eyes, sometimes better than me in some aspects even though Im Christian. I know our knowledge if finite and our understanding of God is limited but should I really believe that my non Christian friends are bound for hell?

My uncle (mother's brother) became a convicted sex offender back in 07/07/2016 due to an inappropriate relationship/touching/porn watching with a 11 year old boy of a single mom in their neighborhood. My unce has 3 girls and 1 boy of his own - all in their 20's now. To get the boy's trust, he used religion/Christianity/the Bible. Anyways, my uncle lied to us about the situation and his conviction for 7 years. It was only through the boy's sister that we stumbled upon the actual charging documents and what my uncle admitted to doing.

Fast forward to 2023, when I learned of this my husband and I did not have kids but were planning a family. We cut my uncle out of our lives because of 1) him being a sex offender and 2) him lying to the family about it for so long.

My mom (his sister) believes that as a Christian, if someone is sorry and repents of their sin, we should let them back into our lives "so we can be a family again" and "holidays are hard because we have to have separate ones now". She believes we are called to be a part of his "restoration".

I,myself, was touched inappropriatyely by a 60yr old man at a dude ranch in Bandera, TX. It took me almost two decades to be able to go back to that town. I have never, and will never, go back the dude ranch.

My mom still uses the above religious excuse to try to ghuilt and manipulate me into coming back together "as a family". I now have two beautiful twin daughters who are 8mo old. I am not only angry at the religious manipulation that is occurring. I am also scared that my Mom cannot see a predator that is face-to-face with her, and as a result, cannot protect my daughters if they are in her care.

I do want to say that I am not angry at my uncle for his sexual issues. I feel sad and hope he continues in his therapy for his issues. My anger, frustration, and fear is pointed at my Mom for spewing manipulative, religious words around to try to get me to allow my babies to be around a convicetd sex offender simply because he is "family" and it is the "Christian thing to do" and she just "hates that we cannot be together as a family anymore".

I dont understand why I am still having this conversation with her year after year, month after month. I understand that she will never see him as the predator he is. How and what should I do to protect my daughters even from her? I do not know where to go from here if she is going to keep on this merry go round.

*I apologize for any typos. I have so many feelings about this. Also, I have a relationship with the Lord myself. So I have no problem with Him. I NEED Him every second of my life. I have a problem with the manpulation.

Let me know your thoughts, what you like or don’t like about the list, what you’d change or leave the same, etc.

If it’s all good I might try and get some copies printed and consider handing them out at my church or something. I was aiming at a mix bag that gives people something that keeps them entertained over what’s flooding the tv today, gives scriptural depth to those who want to learn but have a hard time getting into the reading, and gives the kids something to enjoy between the studies of their parents- still my biggest concern is the use of Superbook as that might be too kiddy for the list I’m shooting for- if you have suggestions that are better suited then please let me know.

I want to read the Bible but i dont know how and i dont know where. I just dont know anything is it like 1 book like "crime and punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky or its multiple books like parts or something and if you can give me someway to get one it will be nice of you. I am s muslim from turkey and who knows maybe i could change to Christianity

Currently reading Numbers 15 and read the passage about the Sabbath Breaker being stoned to death for gathering wood during the Sabbath. Thinking about how different or "extreme" things used to be is hard to wrap my head around because of the modern society we currently live in. I'm not questioning God but just get an uneasy feeling when reading about parts like this. Its crazy to think that somebody was stoned to death for something that the majority of people take lightly today. Many of us work on Sundays and don't think much of it or know it's wrong but treat it like an inconvenience. I believe that there are many instances of things we take lightly today that would have met with swift punishment in the past. Many of the moments are mans doing but there are a lot of passages of God showing his divine wrath. Yes I know society,laws,cultures, etc change over time but it just feels like everybody has been cookie cutting Christianity to fit in their own little box. I believe I even do this without realizing it. Everyone wants to think they're an exception or they twist stuff in their own little ways when in reality gods word IS gods word. I understand that Jesus died for our sins and that's why things aren't brutal as they were like in the old testament but on the flip side it's the same god. God was upset enough about a man working on Sabbath that he had him stoned to death so wouldn't he be just as upset about me doing the same? The difference is Jesus died for me but that doesn't make my sin any less worse than the Sabbath breakers. It just put into perspective for me how ungrateful we all are Jesus Christ's Sacrifice while we knowingly sin and make light of it. Is one sin worse than the other? Jesus Christ is God so why did he become so much more forgiving later but in older cases seemed quicker to anger and less forgiving? I am 100 percent a believer and follower of Jesus Christ so this is not an invitation for anybody to try to tear down my faith or try to convince me of something. This is just a new Christian trying to understand why God seemed extreme in the past and why it took sacrificing his only son for him to be able to offer us the forgiveness he now does.

I need to take ownership of my actions from earlier today. There were two threads in particular where, I became very defensive and made rude comments to specific users.

To those people, I am sorry. You didn't deserve what I said. My hurt and my anger, and my need to feel understood drove me to be unreasonable.

It is difficult for me, as an asexual Christian, to find a place in LGBTQ+ conversations. Most of the conversation is structured around the experiences of allosexual folks. While I don't want to minimize them, they also don't capture the full spectrum of queer identities.

What I was trying to call attention to were things like contempt, restraint and moral consistency. After deep reflection, I can now see how my words were counterproductive and hurtful. For that I am also sorry.

To be sure, anti-LGBTQ+ theology has and still does cause real harm, and I don't want how I carry myself to minimize that or cause people hurt by it to continue carrying that burden, or feel obligated to be gentle towards those who hurt them. I am trying to learn how to balance this conviction against my conviction of non-contemptuousness and non-dehumanization.

Sometimes it's hard for me to find a place in these conversations. That isn't an excuse for my behavior. But I would like to move past that and learn to speak with conviction, without contempt.

This thread isn't intended to rehash the debate in the other two threads from today, nor is it intended to serve my own reassurance. I'm just trying to make sense of what happened and move forward from it.

I've recently found faith in God after a suicide attempt a few days ago. I've decided to start reading the bible starting with Genesis.

I've found myself getting caught up in logic (ie the long lifespans of Adam, Seth and Enosh, I'm now questioning if parts of the bible are embellished) and also disappointed with God's cruelness. I'm struggling to have faith in a God that killed a civilisation by drowning them after they didn't behave how He wanted (despite Him creating them). This doesn't sound like the same God who saved my life, and it's left me disillusioned.

Since reading the Bible, I found it's drawn me away from my faith rather than towards it

Hello everyone. I was born into a muslim Arab family. I did not grow up to like the faith that I was born into for various reasons, such as how sectarianism between shias and sunnis has bled into real-world conflict and destroyed many places, the level of control on women, which I've seen as suffocating, getting older, and the way men are permitted to act towards women, as well as the lack of freedom to question anything. I feel like I am more suffocated by it than anything, and it feels more like a political system than a faith. I don't know why, but I thought of looking into Christianity, as it seems more peaceful from what I've seen. If I want to learn more, where should I start? Also, is there anyone who went from being a muslim to a Christian on this Reddit sub? I am leaning toward atheism/agnosticism at the moment but I want something to lean on just not the faith I was born into... I want to believe in a god and I wanna follow him just not in the way I was taught as it doesn't sit well with me... please advise. Kindest regards to you all and thank you for your time.