I feel sad for lonely doubters; we all need trustworthy doubt-companions. The church at its best prepares a safe and secure space that belief may one day fill; we need not bring fully formed belief to the door, as a ticket for admission. When I began to write openly about doubt, and questioned some of the dogmas of evangelicalism, I expected rejection and punishment, such as I had received in adolescence. Instead I found that the angry, condemnatory letters were vastly outnumbered by others from readers