I created Muddling Through Together in honor of my mother, an amazing Christian woman who died in 2015. I wanted to build a website and community that modeled her own faith journey, with doubts and questions, as both student and teacher. How can Christians grow together in faith, learning from one another, embracing the messiness of life and love and death and despair? I know I’m not alone with my questions, but sometimes it helps to have a concrete reminder…Continue Reading
Christian misfits
3 Ways I’m a Christian Misfit (and Why That Matters)
In 2021, I recommitted to growing Muddling Through Together by working through a blogging course. To help me focus my vision for this website, I wrote the post Who Should Read Muddling Through Together. I concluded that post by writing: Muddling Through Together welcomes the misfits, the rabble-rousers, the women living outside the confines of traditional womanhood. Brita Long, January 4, 2021 But I never fully explained just how I’m a Christian misfit. Today that changes. I Married an Atheist…Continue Reading
Who Should Read Muddling Through Together
To write her book A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Rachel Held Evans focused on a different biblical example each month for an entire year. During this time, she also interviewed many Christian women (and a few Jewish women) to learn more about the different ways to follow biblical womanhood. The New Testament alone has multiple examples of biblical womanhood just in regards to women named Mary! Are you like Mary, the mother of Jesus? What about Mary, Martha’s sister who…Continue Reading