Grace in the Weeds

Grace in the Weeds

The Year Everything Gets to Rest

Just Beyond the System, Week 5

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Rev. Dr. Amanda Whittington
Sep 22, 2026
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Let me tell you about the time I was raptured. Or rather, the time I was very sure everyone else had been, and I had been left behind to face the tribulation alone at age nine.

I came home from school. The house was empty. My mother’s shoes were by the door but my mother was not. And the theology I had absorbed from reading Left Behind, clicked instantly…

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