Refit Epilogue: A Fellow Traveller

The Insiders Challenge · Oct 29, 2026 · 12m

From The Refit: Come to Me, Leave the Lies Behind

I need to tell you something about where I started.

My father was a lay preacher. A good man. A genuinely good man who loved his family and loved his God and gave almost every non-working hour of his life to the church. He was, by every measure that the church uses, a terrific church person.

And growing up inside that world, the God I encountered was a God of rules.

I want to be precise here, because my father deserves precision. The rules were not invented maliciously. They were well-meant, most of them. Many of them were built on actual…