In the winter of 2005, something happened to me -- I left church.
An entirely confusing, painful and reshaping experience for someone who has spent most of her life in regular church attendance.
In September of 2005, I began a blog called "Decompressing Faith". It was located here at this same domain erinword.com. For almost five years, I did just that - I tried to decompress, deconstruct, deprogram from all the years of conservative evangelicalism - and all the damage it had done to me mentally and spiritually.
If you were to start at the beginning and read all my posts in order, you would see an evolution of one person's faith, from terrified of the slippery slope away from evangelicalism, to free spirited and unapologetic for where this journey has taken her.
It was always my goal to find a place to settle - a place in my faith that felt real and where I had peace. While I have found it, in a sense, I also realize that if I'm experiencing God right, that place will always be in flux, changing as my understanding of God does.
After five years, it became clear to me that my blog was no longer a place of "Decompressing my Faith", but a place that shares the journey of a faith nomad, a mapless wanderer meandering through this thing called life.
I hope this explanation clarifies this blog to anyone who might be confused by the name change.
Welcome to Mapless.
