Dear God,
This deconstruction business can be so painful!
I miss you so much it hurts.
It feels like I’m losing my best friend. Or I’ve lost a massive part of myself. There are gigantic holes in my identity that I don’t know how to …
evangelical deconstruction
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Worship
I’ve been thinking a lot about both music in general and worship music specifically. I’m a musician. I sing. I play piano. I have written a lot of songs, chord charts and lyrics and lyric-less compositions for which I have been commended, though very much past-tense. I failed a piano exam way …
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Angels and Demons
Do you believe in angels and demons?
What do you believe about them?
Has that belief evolved?
I really want to hear your stories as well because I think this helps me make sense of how and why my own perceptions might be changing.
As a child, I think I blew them up to be …
Speaking in Tongues: Is it Legitimate?
One fateful night, when I was fourteen, my family visited the Pentecostal church affiliated with “Christian school.” The preacher that night invited people to come down the front and receive the “baptism of the Holy Spirit, evidenced by the gift of tongues.” I was curious about speaking in …
My Deconstruction Journey
Deconstruction has perhaps accelerated in recent years, but I suspect that deconstruction is part of the evolutionary / biological process of the human species. We tend to evolve to new understandings, new ways of looking at things, new scientific discoveries, and so we deconstruct the religious …