Sharon Beck-Doran
Healing for a Late Bloomer: Thoughts on Sex, The Bible and Purity Culture
I’ve come to realize that breaking up is a process. A couple of months after I broke up with Biff he called drunk and begging for me to...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Nov 23, 20229 min
No Tengo Novio: Grace for a Late Bloomer
When I left church ministry in 2008, it was wonderful to go to church and not be in charge of anything. I tried going back to my...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Nov 17, 202212 min
Confessions of a Late Bloomer
Up until 2009, I had a MySpace blog where I shared anecdotes from the single life and reflections on faith. Kind of like this, but...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Nov 10, 202210 min
Late Bloomer
I was a late bloomer. I went to a small Christian high school. There were three boys and twelve girls in my graduating class. Because the...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Nov 3, 20222 min
Meditation on Beginning
This post is better experienced as an audio recording. I encourage you to click the PodCast link at the top of the page and give it a...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Oct 27, 20228 min
Questioning Faith
Growing up I didn’t really know there were other kinds of churches. I knew there were Catholics. I guess there were Mormons and Jehovah’s...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Oct 20, 20229 min
Pastor.
Although I haven’t been employed with the title of Pastor since 2018, I still think of myself as a pastor.
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Oct 12, 20226 min
Finding Home (Making the Change Part 3)
I was born in 1981. My parents transplanted from red-dirt Oklahoma to sunny California in the middle of the hippie movement.
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Sep 14, 20227 min
Making the Change Part 2: The Transition
Picking up where I left off, talking about change. If you haven’t read part 1, you can find it here: https://www.relevantfaithjourney.com...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Sep 7, 20225 min
Making the Change Part 1: Rethinking Repentance
Sometimes change comes softly to us. Sometimes we run after change like a gazelle in an open meadow. And sometimes change comes at you...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Aug 10, 20229 min
Let Your Light Shine
Depending on the day, humanity offers profound inspiration or embarrassing disappointment (as in, “Gosh these humans really suck.”) Some...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Jul 14, 20227 min
Vote Your Faith. But What Does That Mean?
It was a very hot summer day. I think I was around 3 years old. Our church, led by my dad the pastor, had organized a group to picket the...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Jul 5, 20226 min
The Power of Perspective
There are a large number of good men who don’t realize they have sexually harassed and abused women. Sex education from my conservative...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
May 10, 20205 min
Notes from the Pandemic
Adam is fine with quarantine. In fact, I think he could live this way for like ever. Except for me being fairly difficult to isolate with.
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Apr 16, 20204 min
Cuz Corona, and other thoughts on waiting.
I have felt like a pilgrim on an adventure, and I know how to trust that God will go with me. But what is it to stay?
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Mar 1, 20205 min
I have a lot of feelings.
I broke up with my boyfriend of 8 months on Thanksgiving Day, 2012. It had been my longest lasting relationship at a time when most of my...
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Feb 5, 20205 min
Book Review: The Color of Compromise
I start with my confession. I have given a polite nod to racism, I see you insignificantly hiding in the corner, but no real consideration.
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Jan 23, 20205 min
That one time I thought I was all that but really it was God.
Budgeting with a spouse is tough work. When income is uneven and unpredictable, well, there could be ugly crying sometimes.
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Sharon Beck-Doran
Jan 16, 20203 min
An Introduction, that was me at the altar
And so, this little girl grew up and became a lady who inherited the internal censorship of a third-generation pastor.
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