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Category Archives: deconstruction

The Same Right to Be Wrong About God

You don’t have to believe your Muslim neighbor is right about God to believe he has exactly the same right to be wrong about God that you do.

When religious disagreement becomes an argument about who belongs in America, we’ve crossed an important line.

August 23, 2026

You Can’t Claim Scripture and Cherry-Pick It Too

When Paul is wielded to demand lifelong celibacy from LGBTQ people but quietly shelved when his teachings about singleness become personally inconvenient, something important gets revealed — not about scripture, but about how it’s being used.
This post is about the pattern I keep seeing in evangelical spaces: the moment you name the inconsistency, you stop being a truth-seeker and start being a threat.
That’s not discernment. It’s deflection. And it’s one of my deepest tensions with American Christianity today.

August 2, 2026

Even Superman Let the Atheist Stay in the Room

A 1950s game show host — the original voice of Superman, no less — let an actual atheist crash his college Bible study for a few years. Turns out that’s more biblically sound than “guard your heart” ever was.

July 19, 2026

Are the Gates of Hell Prevailing?

When Jesus promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against his ekklesia, was he guaranteeing the survival of religious institutions—or something far more enduring?

A reflection on faith, power, institutional Christianity, and the difference between preserving a movement and preserving an organization.

June 28, 2026

Still Baptized in Baptists: If It Quacks Like Misogyny…

A former Baptist unpacks Dan McClellan’s SBC rebuttal, the Bible vs. ‘biblical’ spin, and why the Southern Baptist stance on women pastors looks like misogyny.

June 21, 2026

“Y’all Just Don’t Hate the Media Enough”

When a longtime friend shares a post saying “y’all just don’t hate the media enough,” a journalist’s dad reflects on family, faith, and why media‑bashing hits so close to home.

June 17, 2026

More Than a Membership Card

A reflection on how modern Christianity often functions more like tribal identity than transformative relationship—and why walking away from the “club” did not mean walking away from the teachings of Jesus.

June 14, 2026

One Hundred Posts Later: Apparently, I Had More to Say

Celebrating 100 randomly rudimentary blog posts and reflecting on the long and winding road to authentic writing.

June 12, 2026

Reformation or Reconstruction?

What happens when a movement centered on compassion slowly becomes an institution centered on preserving itself?

Reflections on evangelicalism, the Reformation, and why I no longer believe the modern church looks much like the movement Jesus started.

June 7, 2026

The Sad Moment When American Politics Became Spiritual Warfare

American politics did not always feel like permanent warfare. Reflecting on evangelical “spiritual warfare” language, fear-based political messaging, and the rise of distrust as a cultural operating system.

May 31, 2026

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