Like Minded Deviants Dr. Lindy Backues, Justin Stewart-Fritz, Jon-Michael Odean

In previous episodes we have suggested the importance to push beyond deconstruction into a process of reconstruction. We believe such a move to not only be possible, but helpful. What does such a move look like? How can we talk about it, what sort of language best helps us to identify such a disruptive yet exciting process?Join us in this episode as we focus on the sort of speech that can help us better understand the process of deconstruction and reconstruction, outlining t...

Over the course of this season, we have been making a case for deconstruction of the traditional Evangelical faith system. We have been saying that healthy moves and progress are often found as one throws off the legalism and the surveillance mentality found in much of American Evangelical faith systems. Maturity can result in the loss of a person's cherished Evangelical faith system, landing the journeyer in a place of skepticism, doubt, and secularism. As we have said, this can be a move to...

Deconstruction is a word that one finds floating around in Christian circles quite a bit lately. For some, the term promises liberating possibilities, an open door allowing fresh air into a context that has long felt stifled. For others, the deconstruction process is dangerous, something that provokes deep anxiety, a move that threatens an unnecessary (and perhaps heretical) dismantling of valuable, historic non-negotiables at the heart of the Christian faith.With that in mind, in...

Get ready for part 3 of our Evangelicalism series where JM, JSF, and Dr. Lindy Backues discuss deconstruction in light of our context in Evangelical America today. This conversation ranges from discussing why deconstruction can sometimes be healthy to a deep dive into the phenomenon itself in with helpful language to make sense of its natural place within a faith journey. As always we want these to be informed by YOU, so let us know what you think, send us your thoughts, and we may even...

Join us for our first Friday release for the second episode in the "Evangelicalism" module, where Lindy, JSF, and JM dive deep into a conversation on "Christianese" in America today (yes we know--very "meta'). It is commonplace knowledge that how we as humans talk and the language we use affects how we see the world around us. In short, the language we use helps shape the way we experience life. An offshoot of this is – especially for those of us from the Evangelical world – the l...

Welcome back for season 2 of the Like-Minded Deviants Podcast! We begin season 2 with the first in our multi-episode module on Evangelism. In this episode, we take a biographical and personal look at what has come to be called Evangelicalism in the West--predominantly the cultural phenomena in the United States. Where did it come from? What was it in response to? What did it do? How has it changed? JM and JSF give us some insight into their own family histories a...