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and began to feel guilty about all that
solitude. He even believed that God disapproved
of his choices and, by extension,
of him.
“The evangelical culture ties together
faithfulness with extroversion,”
McHugh explained. “The emphasis is
on community, on participating in
more and more programs and events,
on meeting more and more people. It’s
a constant tension for many introverts
that they’re not living that out. And in
a religious world, there’s more at stake
when you feel that tension. It doesn’t
feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d
like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with
me.’ ”
From outside the evangelical community,
this seems an astonishing confession.
Since when is solitude one of
the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow
evangelical, McHugh’s sense of spiritual
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