“… the Christian faith is facing its darkest hour, and unless leaders listen to their own message of repentance, the sellout of Christian distinctiveness to imperial advancement will become finalized, concrete, and irreversible.”
In the book I recently published, I write in the introduction that faith deconstruction involves way more than a change in belief system or the likely loss of a church community: most importantly, it inevitably means a reinvention of identity. As much effort as we may put into compartmentalizing faith and spirituality as “elective” parts of the self, these realities are cultural (at least in an American context) and, therefore, essential parts of our individual and collective beings. So, when we deconstruct our faith, we also undergo a trans.formation, sending seismic waves to innermost places that we thought would remain intact.
Because nothing is permanent. Nothing is immovable.
Not even, and especially not, our identity.
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