Diary of a Stumbling Saint

Diary of a Stumbling Saint

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Diary of a Stumbling Saint
Diary of a Stumbling Saint
Jesus, My Spiritual Director

Jesus, My Spiritual Director

How he helped me through a crisis of faith

Shannara Johnson
Nov 04, 2023
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In 2017, I read the Bible cover to cover (the Protestant Bible, that is, which is missing seven books), and it was really tough… especially because I didn’t have a firm foundation of faith that would get me through the hardest parts. You know what I’m talking about: the all-out wars, massacres, human sacrifices to other gods, and just generally the whole melee of human wickedness and depravity. Even God’s chosen ones had severe character flaws; some of them committed horrible crimes.

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