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Every generation must figure out how to work out their need for deconstructing and reconstructing faith. This spiritual and theological work feels at once exciting and urgent, and also risk-filled and terrifying. It isn’t merely an intellectual exercise, deconstructing faith is also relational, emotional, and embodied work.
In this week's interview with Rev.
Bruce Reyes-Chow, we talk about the ways it is easy to forget that each new generation must find their way to deconstruct and reconstruct their faith commitments and practices. I confess in our conversation my own impatience with a new generation of faith leaders doing deconstruction work as if for the first time in history! As Bruce points out, this forgetting makes us come across as arrogant or smug. As a response to that, I wrote a
little about my college/seminary deconstruction of death, heaven, and hell.
Bruce’s new book Everything Good about God is
True, is his exploration of faith. He says the work of deconstructing a too rigid and restrictive faith was not his personal work. He was raised in a progressive justice-oriented tradition. However, when he planted a new church he encountered deconstruction often.
In our brief conversation (7 min) for today’s episode, Bruce shares how the questions in his new book may help those on the journey of reconstructing their faith in a new and more livable way. Watch here:
