Hi family,
What a heavy couple of days. Days where we’ve oscillated between crying, and rage, and helplessness, and still stop to make chicken nuggets and do laundry in between. Days where we’ve deleted Instagram only to re-download and doomscroll even though we know it doesn’t help anything. It feels really surreal so we just wanted to check in with all of you.
Particularly we wanted to take the time at the beginning of this email to check in with the teachers in our Storied community. We have a small handful of you here and we know this week has been a lot. You’ve been on the frontlines of the pandemic these last few years, your work has been politicised and weaponised, and now this.
We’re grateful for you and the way you tirelessly show up for our kids and our communities at large— often at great personal cost. If there are any ways we can show up for you as the Storied community please hit “reply” to this email. We love you and want to help.
Finally, we normally make a wee list of things we’ve enjoyed on and offline throughout the week in the Stuff We’re Into Right Now section and to be honest, this week we’ve been doing our best to just stay offline. Our hearts and minds have been in a different place. So we’re not going to feature that section this newsletter, but it’ll resume next week.
We love you all and you’re welcome to send us your processes, your thoughts if you need an outlet to share what you’re feeling.
Praying for each and every one of us to be conduits of light and goodness in an often broken world.
Much love,
Gabby and Chris
What Kind of “Biblical” Christian Are You?
By Chris Llewellyn
“Look here’s some water! What is to prevent me from being baptised?”
How was Philip supposed to break the news to this powerful, educated and freshly faith-filled man, that the answer to this question might be:
“Everything! Every. SINGLE. Thing.”
Philip was familiar with the Hebrew scripture. His faith was “biblical” to use a preferred evangelical term. He knew that contained in the label “Ethiopian Eunuch” was a double whammy of potential barriers to access to the community of faith.