Courage as Holy Disruption

When Joshua heard God say "Be strong and courageous," he stood at the edge of a land that required him to reimagine everything he had known. The wilderness had been familiar. Crossing over meant entering the unknown — and that has always been the shape of faithfulness. Rachel Held Evans once wrote about how the bravest thing she ever did was stay — stay in a faith that had wounded her, stay at the table with people who disagreed with her, stay committed to a God who refused to be domesticated by any single theology.…