Exvangelical Deconstruction, Abuse, and Ideology

Losing Faith in God's Word Always Breeds More Liberal Sexual Ideology

Does anyone become more Biblically conservative in what they think about sex/gender post-deconstruction? No. Never. Because the rejection of God's order for humanity is always at the heart of it.

It would appear that the debate around whether “exvangelical” deconstruction is not-so-bad-after-all, is still something of a thing. For those unsure of what deconstruction even means in this context, I did a podcast on this topic a while back with Pod of the Gaps called “Doubt, Deconstruction, and Exvangelicals”.

I also did one on evangelicalism more broadly for That Good Fight, where—among other things—we talk about the poisonous toxin of the Emerging Church, and its embers in the “deconstruction” movement of today.

Safe to say, I don’t think “deconstruction” is not-so-bad-after-all. I think it’s very bad indeed. The “Emergent Church” may be very much a dead horse these days, but there are still many pretenders to its vacated saddle who wish to continue riding it under a new name.

Cosper and Mars Hill

The latest entrant to this particular rodeo is Mike Cosper, famed creator of the infamous Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast for Christianity Today a few years ago. Among other things, this show functioned like a 20-hour heroin overdose for anti-conservative egalitarian Christians who were already all too keen to say I-told-you-so on the unravelling of a strongly conservative vision for male-female complementarity and sexual purity in evangelical churches.