[[EDITOR'S NOTE: This post is part of our Guest Writers series. At Deconstruction Doulas, we seek to present many survivor voices with many perspectives on the issues that we confront: spiritual abuse, patriarchy, high-control religion, deconstruction, deconversion, and everything that lives 'downstream' from these things. The content found in posts made by guest writers are not the opinions of the Deconstruction Doulas. You may find some survivors’ opinions and perspectives

[[EDITOR'S NOTE: This post is part of our Guest Writers series. At Deconstruction Doulas, we seek to present many survivor voices with many perspectives on the issues that we confront: spiritual abuse, patriarchy, high-control religion, deconstruction, deconversion, and everything that lives 'downstream' from these things. The content found in posts made by guest writers are not the opinions of the Deconstruction Doulas. You may find some survivors’ opinions and perspectives

When abuse happens in evangelical environments, it’s never without plenty of enablers in the vicinity. But not all of these enablers are mere “flying monkeys,” willingly or fearfully doing the will of the abuser.

When we come to any ancient text, including the Bible, we're coming as tourists in someone else's culture. So it behooves us to be good guests and learn a little bit about our hosts before we go gallivanting off.

Picture a car crash. A bad one. That’s where it starts: in the smoking wreckage of your life.

This passage is not primarily a cosmic drama about Satan. It’s a reality check about human leaders who believe their own hype.

Wrath is not intrinsic to God’s nature. God is love. God is holy. God is just. But God is not wrath.

The word discipleship gets thrown around a lot. And by its generally accepted definition in evangelical circles, this word is supposed to convey the idea that you're being a 'disciple' of Jesus, specifically. There's supposed to be a notion of 'imitation' here. But what happens when discipleship is actually conditioning -- not leading people to Jesus, but training them to conform to a system that ultimately serves the institution? We "condition" someone or something becaus

While the term "deconstruction" has gained popularity in recent years, the phenomenon itself is far from new.

What does it mean to deconstruct your faith? And is deconstruction even the right term for this process? [[NOTE: As the name implies, Deconstruction Doula helps people deconstruct safely. The 'doulas' that write and serve in our community all come from very different places spiritually. We therefore provide a safe place for those deconstructing to do so in an agenda-free way. We don't push any 'final goal' for deconstruction, believing as we do in the competency of individua