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.

Living in the United States is a daily dose of trauma. In no other developed country can you go bankrupt for getting sick or going to college. We are the only nation who is OK with killing kids in school.

You are the second coming of Christ.

If there was a poet laureate of the deconstruction community, it would be Mary Oliver.

Deconstruction is a natural part of the cycle of spiritual renewal. And this cycle, like the cycle of the seasons, requires the death of the old before something better can germinate, take root, and grow in its place

Barbie became human, why can’t you become Divine?

Books, especially good ones, have the power to change your life. If you let them, they can build empathy, increase awareness, and break down walls of separation. Here’s 8 books that changed my life and why!

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.