Exvangelicals

“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

“…only about 16 percent of ‘nones’ ever considered themselves ‘born again.’ That means that nearly 84 percent of ‘nones’ are not ‘exvangelicals’or ‘deconstructed’ Christians. They were unbelievers all along.” - MinistryWatch

“…we are now seeing the emergence of what might be called “right exvangelicalism.” If left exvangelicals sought to keep Jesus but dispense with the church, right exvangelicals are following a similar trajectory, but from the other side of the political spectrum.” - Mere Orthodoxy

“Jim Davis and I geared our book The Great Dechurching more toward helping individuals demystify what’s going on…. However, if Christians are to have any meaningful long-term influence, we must also have the parallel institutional track: local churches making progress on this issue.” - TGC

“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

“April Ajoy, who spoke with CNN, said that she experienced fear that she would be left behind when the rapture came” - C.Leaders

“Olson’s thesis is ‘that liberal Christianity has cut the cord of continuity with the Christian past, orthodoxy, so thoroughly that it ought to be considered a different religion.’” - CToday