Lauren Jackson

I'm telling you right now, it's not a healthy institution for me and many, many, many people.

I do not want to participate, and that is the healthiest choice for me for many reasons.

I'm asking you to honor that as my mom.

I was desperately wanting my parents to not only understand, but also to approve of the life choices that I'd made in leaving my faith.

But it's not... It's not up for debate over here.

It's not up for... It's not a debate.

I guess the thing is that... And frankly, that's not something my parents were willing to offer because they deeply believe in the worldview and the faith that they believe in and that they were raised in and that they live every day.

I think if you put that over here and you had ever experienced feeling the Holy Spirit...

then you would get what I'm talking about.

But if you don't have like room in your heart to just try and listen, then... And so they want me to participate in that.

I love you.

Love to you looks like being exceptionally prescriptive.

They felt like my rejection of that faith was a rejection of them.

And that led to a great amount of conflict.

I don't know.

I guess if there was a sunset, sometimes you say to somebody, come see the sunset because you get excited.

And that's all.

You know, you can make it sound so...

demeaning but it's like a sunset to me it's like wait a second let's not go look at the bush let's look at the sunset okay i've got a different view of the sunset i've got my own sunset it's pretty great

So you were on a different path, a part of this great de-churching.