EDJ
Evangelical Deconstruction Journey
I have been thinking a lot about sexism recently.
I listened to the The New Evangelicals podcast critique on Harrison Butker’s controversial speech in which he specifically addressed women who were about to graduate from college: “I would venture to guess that the …
My mother’s death triggered the bulk of my deconstruction.
It was a long time ago now. 12-13 years. I was attending a Pentecostal church while she was sick and dying. I changed churches to attend a grace-based church just 4 months before she died, and the Pastor (Santo …
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As you deconstruct things like purity culture, have you found yourself questioning whether God actually designed us to be monogamous? “Asking for a friend.” Just kidding, I’m asking for myself, but I am not rejecting monogamy, I am simply questioning.
I celebrated my …
Deconstructing purity culture, for me, has been about understanding that grace covers our decisions about our bodies and our sexuality.
I abstained from partnered sexual activity until age twenty-seven and from penetrative sex until I was thirty-two years old. I longed …