Maybe you’ve felt it too.

That quiet tension between what you’ve been told and what your soul keeps whispering – the sense that there has to be more. More to faith than fear, more to God than rules, more to you than fitting into someone else’s idea of “believer.”

I know that feeling well. I grew up in the familiar rhythms of religion – fluent, even – in its language. I was shaped by its certainty in my earlier years, yet deep down, I could always hear the cracks forming: the questions that wouldn’t stay quiet, the weight of doctrines that felt more like chains than freedom.

For a long time, I tried to ignore them. Didn’t I think that doubting was dishonour? That questioning meant I was losing my way. But as I wrestled with these thoughts, I came to see that faith was never meant to be a cage. Faith isn’t fear. Faith isn’t striving. Faith is realisation.

So I stopped trying to fit in. I stopped apologising for the questions. And I walked away – not from faith, but from the walls that tried to contain it.

That’s why I’m here, and why this space exists: to untangle truth from tradition and to name what no one else dares to say out loud.

Here, doubts don’t push you away from God – they draw you deeper. Here, we don’t chase certainty; we chase meaning. Here, we sift through the rubble, separating the wheat from the tares, the sacred from the spectacle.

I’m on this journey, and I know I’m not alone. Maybe you’re on it too. Maybe you’ve been waiting for someone to say it out loud.

What if doubt isn’t the enemy of faith?
What if it’s the very thing that leads us to the heart of truth?

Here at Exiles & Saints, we believe that questioning isn’t a sign of weakness – it’s the courage to seek something real, something alive. We’re not here to tear down faith; we’re here to build it up, to make it honest, unfiltered, and true.

So if you’re curious – ready to rethink, unlearn, and rediscover a faith that is truly yours, authentic and rooted in love rather than just the one you inherited – then welcome home. 🙂

“Faith is not belief in the absence of doubt, but belief in spite of doubt”

- St. Augustine.