I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith (ed. Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd, 2011) - ISBN: 9781848250659