Last week, I discussed three out of four parts of Dan Stringer’s Struggling with Evangelicalism: awareness, appreciation, and repentance. The last and final part is called Renewal. I enjoyed this section, and found it immensely helpful; and yet, I had many questions at the end – questions that have no Read more…
On Tuesday, I went about the first two aspects of Struggling with Evangelicalism by Dan Stringer – awareness and appreciation. Originally, I was going to talk about both repentance and renewal – but the post got unwieldy. I decided to do two mini-posts instead, with today’s focusing on repentance. This Read more…
Dan Stringer’s Struggling with Evangelicalism: Why I Want to Leave and What it Takes to Stay seemed an excellent third book to deconstruct with. I wanted to have an overview of the Evangelical faith before I delved into the real reason I began my deconstruction journey (which is complementarianism[1]). This Read more…
Friend of Sinners by Rich Wilkerson is what I’d consider a moderate Evangelical. He definitely holds the basic tenants of Evangelicalism (e.g. a relationship with Jesus is the core of faith); but from his writings, it’s clear he isn’t an ultra-conservative Evangelical. (Which is exactly what I needed, by the Read more…
Deconstruction is good; but it isn’t helpful if you don’t rebuild your faith properly. Friend of Sinners by Rich Wilkerson, Jr. is the perfect book to rediscover your passion for Jesus. Wilkerson provides biblical truths and keeps the focus where it ought to be: Jesus, who loves us. If you Read more…
In my last blog, I spoke almost exclusively about the political side of Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne. I purposefully didn’t spend a lot of time on the major aspect that pushed Evangelicals into politics to begin with: gender roles. I have a lot to say about this Read more…
It was hard to wrap my mind around how I wanted to go about this. The first book I read – Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation[1] by Kristin Kobes Du Mez – was absolutely phenomenal. I highly recommend reading it if Read more…
In a previous post, I wrote about my post-partum depression and the chaos 2020 threw my family into. What I didn’t say is the crucible of 2020 led to a journey of deconstruction of some of my long held beliefs. I didn’t understand why other evangelicals weren’t seeing what I Read more…