Christian Kimball, author of the bestselling “Living on the Inside of the Edge: A Survival Guide,” talks about his life as a Latter-day Saint who is neither all-in nor all-out on the faith.
), Kimball offers practical advice for how adult members can navigate the nexus of affection and disaffection, doubt and certainty, belief and disbelief, activity and inactivity — and be at home on the inside of the edge of Mormonism.in which Kimball discussed his strategy for finding peace in an uncomfortable place.
My experience as bishop might be a short way to describe that. It was one of the most important, valuable, powerful things I’ve ever done in my life. And it was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done in my life — and very destructive to my relationship with the church. Doing a couple hundredmade that whole process feel like a fraud, like a mistake, like something that didn’t work right that I could not manage.
What I’m really saying is that the general model that we grew up with as members talking to bishops is of a kid talking to a father. You go to your bishop as a father image and as a man who has all the answers, who is speaking to God. This book is saying, if you’re in that liminal world of on the edge, but still wanting to be engaged, that’s not a survivable way to deal with the church.
The magical thinking I’m talking about and that I think is a problem really boils down to certainty. It’s the idea that you will pray and get an answer, that you will ask for a blessing and it will happen, that you will, if you do the right thing, get to heaven. [There is] still room for numinous experiences or for spiritual guidance. The whole range of belief and understanding and ancestral prayer is still available. The thing that I’m saying we can’t go to is the if/then certainty.
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