The Courage to Unmake the Map

When Joshua stood at the edge of the Jordan, God did not hand him a detailed map. "Be strong and courageous," the Divine whispered — not because the path was clear, but precisely because it was not. Rachel Held Evans once wrote about the terrifying freedom of following God beyond the boundaries of certainty. She knew what every honest person of faith eventually discovers: sometimes courage means admitting that the inherited map no longer matches the terrain.…