“The Connors feel a deep sorrow that robs their joy and causes them to question their parenting. They pray for Kyle and wonder where things went wrong. They worry about his spiritual, physical, mental and emotional health and safety.” - Baptist Press
I have never read a book that I would categorize as a “Satan-breathed”; a book where the author defends the devil’s dogmas of “ye shall not surely die” and “ye shall be as gods” by using the words of Scripture. Now I have.
In Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love, Bob Jones University (BJU) alumnus and former evangelical pastor Brian Recker characterizes the doctrine of Hell as “a black hole, sucking in and crushing every other priority under its weight” (13).
“Almost every parent looks back on their experience of parenting and thinks they could have done better. Help your friend to understand this…. But when we are vulnerable because of the grief caused by prodigal children, the devil will whisper in our ear that it is all our fault.” - Challies
“In her memoir, Hatmaker explores her own ‘complicity…patterns…failures,’ …. Although she’s ‘still mad’ at her ex, Hatmaker said, ‘We were both a part of several systems that were corrosive and made it really difficult to be honest and to seek help.’” - C.Leaders
“ ‘I write it both to get it off my chest, to give Doug Wilson and his people the dirt they’re probably looking for, and to dissuade anyone from thinking I’m the ‘anti-patriarchy’ hero they might think I am,’ Bell wrote in the Facebook post” - RNS
“The institutional credibility of the Church and of many leaders has taken such a hit in recent years… and it can leave many Christians feeling dazed and disoriented as to the way forward.” - Baptist Press
“Eventually, [Harbor] determined the Christian faith could not provide satisfying answers. And so he left it all behind. Today, though, he is following the Lord. He worships God as a member of a church… writes a newsletter where much of his emphasis is on reconstruction.” - Challies
“It’s one thing to describe doubting, questioning and, ultimately, shifting faith commitments as ‘deconstruction.’ It’s another to prescribe it as the means of coming to terms with Christianity’s unpopular truth claims or the baggage of a Christian upbringing.” - Breakpoint
“67% who left a faith tradition did so because they simply stopped believing in that religion’s teachings.” - Church & Culture
“Though many young people are unaware of deconstruction and the exvangelical community, the very online are likely to have bumped into the concept on social media.” - TGC
