I spent almost every summer while in college as a camp counselor at Imago Dei, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) camp in Wisconsin. Youth ministry had become my passion and purpose, one so personally fulfilling that I justified the fact that I was attempting to love God and others without loving myself. A […]
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I spent my entire teenage years pretending to be someone I wasn’t because I didn’t want to lose my reputation and my place in the world.