As deconstruction has become a buzzword, responses to deconstruction from within the church have grown in frequency; and in the same way that deconstruction experiences fall along a broad spectrum, so do responses to it. That said, many still in the church imply or flat out say that people who deconstruct never really had true faith, that they weren’t committed, that they didn’t know their bible.

As I hope you’ve heard and seen, that is not my story. I was extremely invested in the church. I memorized large sections of scripture, read books, listened to sermons, went to conferences and invested hundreds if not thousands of hours serving local churches. I was all in. So to leave was no small thing for me.

And it is a decision that did not happen overnight. It took months for me to go from an acknowledgement that I needed to leave, to actually pulling the trigger. And though I was not public or explicit about my concerns and questions, they have been simmering for a while.

In this episode, I want to explore the circumstances that lead to my acknowledgement that much of the American Evangelical church was not healthy, and the events that lead to my personal exodus.

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