I was raised in the tradition,

Have experienced intense times of faith in my life, and also more fleeting, subtle periods,

A few points from an op piece caught my eye, spoke to me,

In Christianity,, “believing all that stuff” is not the point.

The Christian message, as I experience it, was, IS transformational. It encourages us to treat other people well and opened up a world of imagination and wonder.

It’s sources drawn from traditions as different as Eastern Orthodoxy is from Pentecostalism or Christian Science. No one can swallow the entire tradition: It’s undigestible!

Instead, anyone who identifies as Christian chooses certain elements of it.

The central elements,

Love

Connection

Forgiveness

LOVE.