Rev Karla’s Blog

The Difference Between Renouncing Your Faith and Deconstructing From It Can You Keep Community If You Lose Your Religion A simple Google search on “renouncing faith” or “deconstructing your faith” will net you a slew of posts about the tragedy of turning your back on Christ, and how the fault lies with you if you…

Take Me to the Place Where Faith No Longer Hurts Your Faith Should Feel Like Coming Home, Not Like Being Kept Prisoner It wasn’t supposed to be this way. From the very beginning, we humans have gotten it wrong. Survival of the fittest evolved into survival of the whitest. The expanse of time between the…

Having Tough Conversations Turning Your Tough Conversations into Heartfelt Discussions Confrontation is never easy, especially when you are putting your heart on the line or your identity is being threatened. When you want the other person to listen with deep intention, sometimes that desperate need builds up, and you end up shouting out your needs.…

Trauma-Informed: An Interview With Marlana Glaeser, Owner Of Gentle Hands Consulting Defining Trauma-Informed “I wonder if you’d be interested in joining me on a TikTok livestream.” And with that simple DM, a friendship began with a person who I have come to know and admire greatly for her courage. In this week’s podcast episode, Marlana…

Is Fear Keeping You in the Church Pews Every Sunday? Why the Need for Community Keeps People in the Same Church That Hurt Them If you’ve followed me for some time, you know I was raised Southern Baptist. I navigated my way through many churches, including progressive ones, until I finally landed in an evangelical/pentecostal…

Queer Spirituality: An interview with Alejandro Rodriguez, director of Spirituality Network Ministering with communities vs. to Them How does someone who works for corporate America in a Fortune 100 company, leave that job and become the executive director for a non-profit that focuses on social justice issues? On this podcast episode, I had the honor…

The Difference Between A Welcoming vs. Affirming Church It is important to distinguish between a congregation that values numerical growth and one in which all members are welcomed and loved for exactly who they are.   People desire to be accepted and welcomed into a spiritual community that embraces them unconditionally. I witnessed the pain…

Using Your Voice for Good Wow, I forgot how much I truly detest the cesspool of comment engagement on Facebook. It was a momentary lapse of reason that compelled me to leave that comment on Heather Cox Richardson’s early morning post. Heather, a renowned political historian and author, writes daily about the intersection of the…

Using Your Voice for Good I’ll never forget the day I went “viral” on TikTok. Imagine—me, a boomer who could barely navigate the app to post a video, let alone posting one that would eventually have millions of views. I was frustrated with a writing project, and my business mentor had suggested that I remember…

The Healing of the Inner Child   It was right after the ceremony. I had just declared Ria and Amber Demiri married in a beautiful ceremony with a picturesque setting made more beautiful by the people gathered to witness this sacred event. The minister is usually the first one to the altar and the last…