I’m out in the mountains … again. No Cheryl Strayed agenda. I gave up on that. Seems like God prefers talking to me through panic attacks and people. “You coming, Brandon?” a camper calls. “Nah. I need a moment.” I’m sitting on a massive rock, on the edge of an...
I was sitting at a coffee shop with a local pastor who reached out to me wanting to hear about my views on the LGBTQIA+ community. This is something that has happened more than a few times over the past couple of years simply because people want to understand how I...
There’s this show I adore called Schitt’s Creek. It got me through a pandemic, repatriation, a breast cancer scare, and an unexpected divorce in 2020. I still watch it every night before bed to help me fall asleep. In episode six of season three of the show, two...
Podcasts, podcasts, podcasts. There are quite a few podcasts about questioning religion, faith deconstruction, atheism and agnosticism, and not necessarily being an evangelical Christian. It’s an explosive medium for hosts and listeners who feel they...
Friends of Lake Drive Books, I’m so pleased to announce that Brandon Flanery’s Stumbling: A Sassy Memoir about Coming Out of Evangelicalism is now on sale! This is one LGBTQ memoir you don’t want to miss. Stumbling is part of our effort to tell real-life...
It’s one of the biggest questions surrounding religion: do you believe in a higher being, do you believe in God? The question about belief seems to be the primary way we like to talk about religion and faith. You might even say that it’s the only religious...
