deconstruction

I am learning that questioning religion is not the same as abandoning it.

Rebecca Bratten Weiss finds treasures in the ruins of Christian literary classics. But first, the idols need to be smashed.

Some exvangelicals are looking for a new church home. Will they find it in a mainline congregation?

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Flight.”

The second season of Shiny Happy People reminds me of my year as a Teen Mania intern—and our efforts to become the standard of holiness for the world.

Lately I’ve been feeling the same emotions I felt when I deconstructed my evangelical faith.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Source.”

It’s a rich, multivocal library. And we can’t afford to be ignorant of a book that’s being weaponized against vulnerable people.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Help.”

Filtered through my deconstructed Catholic faith, Ulysses holds up surprisingly well.

Leaving evangelicalism allowed me to embrace the mystery of faith. I wonder if I’ve taken it too far.

I have been an onion peeler and an excavator. I hope God will form me into a bridge.

I don’t go to church anymore, but the faith I was pickled in still shapes me.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Hunt.”

Five ways I see a new generation reorienting its Christianity

The cracks in my faith came slow, like when plants grow under concrete.

One of the reasons I left my childhood faith tradition is that I didn’t feel what I was supposed to feel.

Tiffany Brooks offers much more than just another exvangelical anger manual.

Evolving Faith’s Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu believe that a person’s deconstruction can’t just be for them.