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What to do about Christmas after you’ve deconstructed your faith
When your christian faith has changed significantly, Christmas can be difficult. A time that used to be filled with familiar Jesus-themed music , church activities, and Advent readings, now looms quiet, empty, and…
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How to make decisions when you no longer (or don’t know how to) pray
When I was a “Christian,” it felt like my decisions always belonged to God. After all, my life was not my own, I was bought with a price. When I had to decide…
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Spiritual Practices can be whatever you want them to be
As I have been exploring spirituality in different ways this year, I keep coming across posts and articles and podcasts about spiritual practices, and so many of them sound the same. Stereotypically, there…
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3 life-changing questions to ask yourself (and the 3 questions that are changing my life!)
One of the most surprising things about having deconstructed my faith and entering into this…shift? transformation? awakening? in my understanding of life and identity, is realizing how deeply unaware I was. If you…
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Things I used to know
I used to know…how to talk to people about faith. what to say when people asked me what I believed. what to say when people asked me if I still believed in God…
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A video about deconstruction, christian mysticism and “unknowing” God…
Here is a video I recorded recently about deconstruction, discovering christian mysticism and using it as a bridge out of evangelicalism, and how it ties into the idea of “unknowing” God. I’d love…
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“Why do people – who once followed Jesus – quit Christianity?”
Someone recently asked this question of the pastor of my former church. He decided to preach a message answering this question. When I saw the topic of his upcoming sermon, I reached out…
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The pressure of praise
Two weeks ago, my family went on a trip to a remote part of Utah. We rented canoes (t-cat setups) from Tex’s Riverways in Moab, bussed an hour and a half to the…
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After deconstructing, don’t “reconstruct”! Do this instead…
Have you stopped deconstructing? Did you get to a point where you just said you were done, or where you felt like you were done? Did you stop attending church to throw away…
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5 things no one tells you about losing your faith
When you’re entering into a time of doubting or deconstructing your faith, it is scary and uncomfortable, and it’s hard to know who you can talk to. A lot of times, you feel…
