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You sound like you're handling this reeeeeaally healthily, from at least my (also Christian-but-annoyed-with-many-churches) perspective. My eyes were swelling up with tears reading about halfway down through the existing questions/answers, and if I could give you many hugs I would.

I have more of a theological question: what do you think is the purpose of church? What do (more mainstream/normal) churches today tend to do well, and what do you think they get wrong? How could they be better?

Also: the same questions, but replace"church" with "family."

edit: also, a friendly warning to you because your account looks new and I'm not sure how used to reddit you are. There are some very vocal, obnoxious atheists on reddit who might (honestly, probably accidentally... but that doesn't make it any less harmful) ask a lot of very insensitive questions because you said you still believe Biblical stuff. With any luck, they'll see this and get indignant and decide to spite me by being polite :p. If not, though, you might want to brace yourself emotionally a bit so that you're not upset by it.

How do you feel about lower-level math education?

Up through about calculus, math was always presented to me as a bunch of rules, formulae, or tiny algorithms you could follow to manipulate equations or find missing sides/angles of various shapes. It wasn't until I got to college and took some proof-based, higher level math that they started stressing the intuition that complicated problems take to solve, and then filling in the gaps with logic after you were already "pretty sure" that a rigorous explanation was possible in the first place.

Do you think it's good that we start kids out by teaching them math the way we do? Is it a necessary evil? Can you think of ways in which it could be done better?