The right time to leave

I’m one of those people who finds it nearly impossible to leave anything.

Here’s the third of four blog posts for the Reformed Journal, covering the Sundays in June…

When is the right time to leave a relationship, a job, or a church?

I’ve thought about that question often over the years, and I’m thinking about it today, in light of the decisions being made this month in the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church. (I spent the first twenty-five years of my life in the CRC.) The news, as well as the recent posts on this blog, have been triggering at times because of my own relatively recent (and painful) experiences in the Presbyterian Church (USA), which is where I ended up and continue to be a member.

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Note: Long-time readers of Doug’s Blog may remember some of these thoughts from a column I wrote in February 2021 for the Holland Sentinel (and then posted here). That column focused on the decision by Betsy DeVos, Trump’s secretary of education and a sometime-Holland resident, to leave the administration on January 7. DeVos described the insurrection on January 6 as an “inflection point” in her thinking, and in the column I wondered whether there were perhaps other times during the Trump administration when she thought about leaving.

Photo: Another door in Jerusalem, another photo taken with my fancy Nikon camera.