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  1. brudspirea

    Avoidant Anxiety

    I'm 21 now, and I'm fairly certain it hasn't always been like this. It started with a pretty simple fear of being judged. I avoided voicing opinions I knew would get me in trouble, stopped posting anything that could make me a target. Eventually this morphed into an INTENSE fear of people...
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    First steps for a protestant looking to convert to catholicism?

    Hey, all. I'm a life long protestant, grew up mostly ignorant of catholic teachings. The only times it was mentioned it was in a disparaging manner, typically to do with the veneration of Mary or the "worship" of statues. It's only the past year I've begun doing my own research on Catholicism...
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    Anyone else planning to get the new Animal Crossing game?

    It's coming out on the 20th, and I'm probably a little more excited for it than I should be. It just looks so wholesome. I played a lot of the prior installment, New Leaf, and I found it to be a really nice bit of escapism, and also a pleasant change of pace from the otherwise intense nature of...
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    Has anyone read 'Church of Cowards'? What do you think of it?

    Gonna preface this by saying I haven't read it myself, but I'm interested. It's written by a conservative podcaster of faith, Matt Walsh, and the book is supposed to be a rousing call to action for 'complacent Christians'. That's a very intriguing premise to me, as I often think about the state...
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    Do people enter the after-life immediately or all at once following the Second Coming?

    Very keen to hear your takes on this. For most of my young life I assumed the after-life was immediate, that your soul basically leaves your body and ascends right after or soon after you die. This assumption was never challenged, since most sermons and discussions at church presupposed this to...
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    I deeply regret not saving myself for marriage.

    This has been weighing on my mind for some time now, and I haven't been sure where to turn to. I'm 20 now, and in a relationship with someone I intend to marry. He does not hold my past against me, in fact, it doesn't seem to actively bother him at all. To me, however, it's a source of great...