Rebuilding Babel: How we keep rebuilding towers without noticing

I once tried to remove a tick from my dog with heated tweezers. There was a sizzle, a yelp... and then I put my glasses on and realized the "tick" was one of his nipples.

That's how faith can feel sometimes: confident, sincere, even heroic-until you notice you've been using the wrong tools on the wrong problem.

I believe in God deeply. But the way I learned to "do church" started to feel like a bath that left more mess than it cleaned-more exhaustion than healing, more performance than presen...