The God of the Left-Behind: What My Stuffed Animals Taught Me About Noah’s Ark

How a childhood obsession with saving every toy helped me unlearn a scary version of God.

My most loyal childhood friend, Snowball, was a small white stuffed kitty whose ears were worn off with love. And then there was Snowboulder, the lookalike kitty who was supposed to be ‘replacement’’ Snowball but never did. Also, there was a cat made of yarn by my aunt, Whiskers, the cat who had an AM radio in her belly, a pink mouse with giant ears and…