I want to see the world through Jo’s eyes, dark, yet brimming with beauty. I want to live in peace regardless of my circumstances.

Before you dismiss this as yet another progressive crying wolf, hear me out. I was an evangelical’s evangelical. I worked in leadership at Focus on the Family for ten years. I’ve been in meetings with the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, and Family Policy Councils. I heard the private parts out loud.

Posturing, virtue signaling, and forcing religious beliefs on others while not lifting a finger to help the other in daily life is Republicanism, and sadly, defines large swaths of American Christianity.

The Supreme Court just gave Donald Trump immunity for being Donald Trump. But, who is he? Better yet, WHY is he?

I’m going to guess that a lot of us get stuck in the rage stage of faith deconstruction. It is a trauma response. Without recognizing it, we are grieving the loss of our former faith, friends, and family. The anger masks the overwhelming and often debilitating feeling of loss.

Imagine how different the world would be if Christians simply decided not to kill another human being. When the American military kills her enemies, odds are a Christian pulled the trigger.

If you seek to restore relationships with those you’ve lost, start with these four questions: What do you love? What have you lost? Where does it hurt? What do you dream?

We must change the container of our spirituality before filling it with something new. Pouring progressive ideas into a dualistic, ego-driven, fundamentalist operating system is spiritual malpractice. Or, as Albert Einstein quipped, “No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it.”

If you want 2024 to be different than 2023, start today by taking an inventory of the last twelve months. Be honest with yourself about the good and the bad.

We need a new voice to awaken us to our planet’s cries for survival. We need someone brave enough and strange enough to cut through the madness of normality to tell us our culture is insane.

There is a direct link between the recovery community and the exvangelical community, and that link is trauma.

This is my queer body, broken for you.

Sometimes the most oppressive, controlling, and domineering forces in life are close friends and family, or at least the folks who knew you when.

Have you ever just wanted a roadmap or guide to deconstruction? Here’s some help.

At some point in your faith deconstruction journey, you are going to have to ask the big question: Do I even stay Christian?

Silent Saturday reveals not a triumphant, dominator God, but a God most fully known as an abandoned, brutalized, brown man lying naked on a cold slab. Today exposes God at his worst, or maybe at her best.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Critical Race Theory has become a sort of dog whistle for white evangelicals who continue to believe the myth of American exceptionalism while hiding America’s original sin of white supremacy.

Everone’s talking about deconstructing evangelicalism. But what about recovering from it?

I’ll admit, I (Gary Alan) really don’t like playing board games with my kids. Cards? Yes. Movie nights? Absolutely. But board games? Pass. But with summer comes more time…