RHETORICAL ANALYSIS Podcasts

The specific alignment (or misalignment) between someone’s spiritual state and the actions of people around them plays, in many cases, a critical role in their decisions to leave and also return. The most effective examples of supportive ministry come from those who...

  The narratives we reviewed most often begin with some kind of misalignment between an individual's private religious feelings and public religious practices or beliefs. At the end of the narratives, a deeper private relationship with Christ and Heavenly Father...

Once our narrators worked through anxiety and appreciated that returning was a real possibility, the way they describe their next steps often indicates that they seemed to need a kind of implied “permission” from an external source to come back. by Sarah d'Evegnée...