What Happened to You in Your Church Experience?

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When i was a tea major in tolsoklahoma, ttending my my baptist church there, am as as a youth. I had a senior pastor leave the church, just disappear. And about aont later, we learned that our pastor was having an affair with his secretary. We ended up was ta church of about 12 hundred people, had six, five or six staff members. They were down to to, i think, by the end of that eight or nine month period.

David French and Curtis Chang discuss the hot topic of “deconstruction,” a term with multiple meanings, from reevaluation of specific faith related issues to a deeper questioning of Christian faith itself. For many the discussion around deconstruction stems from some sense of pain or hurt caused by the church. David and Curtis (and producer Kris) explore the complex and deeply personal dimensions of this process, including practical suggestions for listeners.

Show Notes:

-The French Press: Under Attack from Fundamentalist Pirates, Evangelical Baptists Refused to Give Up the Ship

-Karen Swallow Prior: “With this much rot, there’s no choice but to deconstruct”

-The French Press: John Wayne, Jesus, and the Struggle to Define the Christian Man

-The French Press: America Is in the Grips of a Fundamentalist Revival