I had an apologetics podcast. I had a public ministry in apologetics. My family went through a really

great tragedy. God's story? Your life. Unfolding short stories. You might know Elisa Childers.

She was in the band Zoe Girl. And later, she became one of the most well-known Christian apologists in the world.

I've been listening to her for years.

She's a writer, podcaster who helps people wrestle with doubt.

But years before that, she sat in a church listening to her pastor question everything she believed.

There was a moment for her that propelled her into a faith crisis.

But years later, after she thought the hardest questions were behind her, something else

happened, something closer to home.

When I think back over the course of my life, I think that it is really

astounding the way God has worked in my life and just even the way he made me. I grew up and I was

very artistic. I was actually very athletic too. I loved gymnastics and I was a cheerleader in high

school and played competitive softball. But really, it was the artistic stuff,

the music side of things that was the way I really felt like I connected with God. So I think

I had, and I don't say this in a negative way, but I had a very emotional faith in God. I really

loved connecting with the Lord. I loved worship services, any kind of time when I would sense

that I felt his presence. I really didn't doubt intellectually what I believed for a good bit of

my life, especially when I was younger. I didn't really doubt or question whether or not Jesus

really was raised from the dead or if the Bible was his word. And so that would actually happen

later as I was an adult. And so that would actually happen later as I was

an adult. And I share this story quite a bit that my faith was challenged within the context of

a church that would end up rebranding itself as a progressive Christian community. And the pastor of that

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