Blog - Rebekah Drumsta

In my conservative Christian homeschool world, American Girl books were approved reading. Asking certain questions about or understanding our own world was another matter.

I loved those stories. I still do. But looking back, I’m struck by the difference between admiring a girl who challenged expectations in another century and making room for a girl who questioned the e...

In faith deconstruction spaces, you often hear people talking about reconstruction. The idea shows up everywhere: in therapists’ offices, from pastors, in influencer posts, in healing journeys. There are books, workshops and courses designed to help you reconstruct your faith.

On the surface, it makes sense. You take apart what harmed you, then you rebuild something hea...

“Strongholds of Satan” is one of those phrases that carries weight in certain Christian circles. It sounds serious, urgent and spiritually mature. Many of us grew up hearing it used to explain everything from anxiety to doubt to relational conflict. The message was clear: if you were struggling, Satan had gained ground in your life. If you felt tempted, fear, sadness or overw...

Nat King Cole’s “Smile” is one of those songs that drifts in like a warm memory. You hear it in an old movie or streaming on a playlist while stirring something familiar on the stove, and it wraps around you with a kind of gentle nostalgia. The lyrics encourage you to smile through ache, fear and sorrow - a message meant to soothe, not aggravate. But when you sit with the wor...