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A Solitary Christian Life is Not Ideal. Note: I intended this to be a fairly short series on deconstruction, based on my own experience. But I’ve found that it’s difficult to explain the process I went through later in life without fully understanding what happened earlier. So, this is probably going to take a bit longer than I’d planned. I hope not to write a memoir-length tome, but I’ve decided just to continue this journey of discovery and let it take me where it will. Thanks for coming along for the ride. — Jim I was a lone-ranger Christian. Hokey …

Why Some Christians Are Deconstructing Their Faith Image generated with Midjourney AI I started a series on faith deconstruction/reconstruction a while back and then got sidetracked by a shiny object (can’t remember what!) and the series ground to a halt. This post is intended to jump start the series and get me back into the writing process. Rather than go back to the beginning, I thought I’d post this Twitter thread I found the other day that pretty much nails the reasons people deconstruct their faith.  You might not be on Twitter (and lately there are a lot of good …

Prophecy, Cults, and Cassettes 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. Soooo, what should a new Christian who knows absolutely nothing about the Bible start studying? How about end-times prophecy and religious cults? Yeah, I know. Not a great place to start, but I didn’t know any better. Something had changed in me. I just didn’t understand what it was. What I did know is that I was hungry. I wanted to learn everything I could about my newfound faith. …