Blog - Rebekah Drumsta

I did not grow up thinking of fear as fear. I grew up thinking of it as wisdom, as seriousness, as spiritual maturity. I thought fear was just being scared of something. In the fundamental, evangelical world of my childhood, graphic martyr stories, rapture warnings and fear-based tracts were not treated as unusual or extreme; they were simply pa...

Some harm in religious life arrives quietly. It can look like being tucked neatly into a pew, but never truly seen. It can look like not being chosen for the Christmas pageant, being treated as a prospect for bus ministry rather than a child who belongs, or realizing in Sunday School that your loneliness is normal only because no one has made ro...

When you’ve been through trauma, received life‑altering news or found yourself in a season of crisis, it’s natural to reach for help. It’s one of the most human things we do. When life becomes unsteady, we look for something steady to hold onto. We seek support.

In those moments, calm can feel like safety. Co...