Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
New Visions

deconstruction

Select a Category Abuse Addiction Advent adventure Alpha Male Animals Answers Attachment Attitude authenticity Authenticty Authentiicity Awareness being Bible Black Community BLM body awarenss book Books Bravery Bullying Bypassing Certainty Certianty Chamge change children Christianity Christmas Church Comfort community Compaasion Compassion Complementarian Complementarianism Conditioning Consciousness Contemplation Control Conversation Converstations Covid-19 Creation Darkness Death Debate deconstruction demons depression desert Devil Disciples discussion Divine dreams Easter Eclipse Empathy Essence evolution evolve faith fatherhood Fear fiction Flood Focus Focusing Focussing Future Genesis Goals God Gratitude grief growth Guns Hate healing Health Heart Hell Holiday Hypnosis ignorance Improvement infallible Inner Child Integrity Intuition Jesus Jezebel Journey King LGBTQ+ Love MAGA Marriage meditation Men Mercy Message metaphysical Mindfulness Misogyny Mourning Music Mystic mystical Narcissism Nationalism Nature New Year Novel Nutrition Organization other Pain Pandemic parenting Pastors Patriarchy Patriotism Personal Growth Plan Poet poets Police politics Power practice praise Prayer presence pro-life Problem Solving Progress prolife Prophet prophets Purity Culture Purpose Queer Questions Racism Rape Rapture reconstruction Recovery Religion Resolutions Restoration Resurrection Retribution Reviews Root Cause Sanctuary Satan SBC Scripture Seeking Self-Care Self-esteem Seminary Sex Shadow shame social justice social media solitude Spirits Spirituality stillness Story Survivor Thanksgiving Theologians Theology Tradition Trauma travel Trump Uncategorized Unchurching Universe Violence Vision Voice Volunteer Vulnerability War Women Word worship Writing

Select a Month September 2026 August 2026 June 2026 May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020

September 2022

September 14, 2022

The Services of the Church

(excerpt from our book, Out into the Desert Imagine you are in the 1930’s, or...

September 13, 2022

The Main Thing

This is an excerpt from our book, Out into the Desert, concerning "evangelism" and the...

September 08, 2022

Self Care is Tricky

No matter how hard I try to escape it, Christianity is part of my root...

August 2022

August 24, 2022

The Journal of My Deconstruction

They told me early on that it's important to be able to summarize your writing...

August 06, 2022

Thriving Outside Organized Religion

Two things seem to be true. 1. Evangelical Christianity is in a tailspin and quickly...

July 2022

July 18, 2022

Announcing – Out into the Desert

Cover by Rafael Polendo Several years ago, I went through what most people call a...

July 15, 2022

The Origin of our Fears

As much as we would hate to admit it, most of our lives are totally...

June 2022

June 21, 2022

Afterword – Out into the Desert

(Afterword from our book, Out into the Desert) - releasing August 15th It has been...

June 17, 2022

The Future of Dones and Nones

You can ignore and dismiss us all you want, but we are going...

June 17, 2022

Sharing Our Work

Laura and I are making our final passes through our book we wrote together over...

June 04, 2022

Forward: Out Into the Desert

Keith Giles wrote the foreword to Laura and I's new book Out Into the Desert:...

May 2022

May 14, 2022

Deconstructing the Church

When I went through my deconstruction, the temptation was just to stay away from people...

May 12, 2022

A Transition Plan for Fundamentalists

I know it's hard waking up one day and realizing that your faith and practices...

May 11, 2022

The Water We Swim In

Often when I talk about issues I see within the church or organize religion, I...

April 2022

April 04, 2022

Why Deconstructing Is Not a Dirty Word

It is becoming more and more popular for Evangelicals to speak up...

January 2022

January 13, 2022

Why the Church Can’t Fix Itself

When I say the church, I specifically mean Westernized Christianity. I'm not familiar with other...

January 01, 2022

Out Into the Desert

Five years ago, when we stepped down from our final church to dive into our...

December 2021

December 12, 2021

How to Win an Argument

I used to be very uncomfortable with people believing something different than me. In fact,...

October 2021

October 16, 2021

Christianity is not Under Attack, it is Under Review

Photo by EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA from PexelsA few days ago, my daughter sent me a Tik...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

The Quest in Questions

Today I was typing a blog and accidentally typed “questions” when I meant to type...

April 25, 2021

Compost and Communion

As I progress in my deconstruction and the subsequent journey, it seems that language becomes...

March 2021

March 23, 2021

Being With Uncertainty – A Poem

This poem is from a later chapter in my new book, Being: A Journey Toward Authenticity...

December 2020

December 05, 2020

The Bonfire Sessions

Being by nature an introvert, I don’t necessarily like to...

November 2020

November 11, 2020

The Saga of my Story

The picture is of my grandson, Jackson. Just this week, I got to see...

November 04, 2020

Stepping Up

There is a popular illustration about an old mule that fell into a well. The...

October 2020

October 05, 2020

My Evolution

Deconstruction makes people uneasy. Some have opted for gentler terms like restoration (as...

July 2020

July 21, 2020

Our Evolving Faith

A few years ago, I began what most people would call a deconstruction. I am...