I am back again this week with the second part of the story I began last week. This installment will wrap up the allegory section from my talk, but next week I will share the meaning of the allegory and my personal story. So stay tuned for the rest of the series over the coming weeks! If you missed Part 1, you can read that here. Driven to the deep dungeons of the castle, in almost complete darkness, the princess found light in a tiny corner of her heart that the monster had not managed to poison. In desperation she…

This week, I am beginning a series of posts that are taken from a conference talk I gave at my church in the fall of 2023. I have been wanting to share this story here ever since giving it as a talk, but at the time I didn’t even have access to the blog because of some backend issues with my server! Now that I am back and writing again, I decided it was finally time to share this with all of you here. Since this is a rather lengthy story, though, I am breaking it up into several installments.…