Do your loved ones ever tell you you’re convinced of the wrong thing? That your convictions or fears are based on anxiety rather than biblical fact? I recently had a young woman pose this question in our weekly Zoom ...
Jaimie Eckert
Apr 22, 2026
Do you feel condemned for bad thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere? You’re not alone. Christians with religious obsessive-compulsive disorder often struggle with something called intrusive thoughts. These unwanted thoughts can bring spiritual torment and deep psychological ...
Jaimie Eckert
Mar 20, 2026
Spiritual rumination is not the same thing as spiritual inquiry. Unfortunately, the Christian with OCD finds himself or herself attempting to do spiritual inquiry but ending up in spiritual rumination. Spiritual rumination is a repetitive, anxious form of overthinking ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jul 20, 2025
Nina* was used to anxiety. For years, she’d had social anxiety and fears about driving and flying. But when Nina began to feel a jolt of anxiety when she walked into church, she knew something had shifted. She began ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jun 5, 2025
Falling in love ought to be one of the sweetest seasons of life. Discovering the person that you’ll spend the rest of your life with, for most people, is a time filled with excitement, warmth, and butterflies in the ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jan 10, 2025
Does God micromanage us? For those struggling with scrupulosity, this question feels ever-present. Perhaps you’ve experienced thoughts like: “You can’t eat that cookie—God doesn’t want you to.” “You have to park in that other parking spot, not this one.” ...
Jaimie Eckert
Nov 24, 2024
I’ve sinned, and I know it. My ribcage squeezes together with shame and my stomach turns over. As a person with religious OCD, my guilt isn’t theoretical–it’s something palpable, a real physical sensation. You might think my first response ...
Jaimie Eckert
Mar 20, 2024
Are you ritualistically, anxiously confessing your sins in a way you know God didn’t intend? In a recent survey of 431 people with religious OCD, I asked them to respond to the statement, “I can be too intense or ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jan 11, 2024
If you suffer from scrupulosity and experience awful, unwanted thoughts towards God, you might be wondering: how common are blasphemous thoughts? I don’t know of anyone who has measured the prevalence of blasphemous thoughts in the general, non-OCD population. ...
Jaimie Eckert
Dec 14, 2023
When I think about the bodily compulsions of religious OCD, I think back to the first moment I realized my own bodily movements might not be “normal.” I was in a small group Bible study some years back, and ...
Jaimie Eckert
Nov 9, 2023
