Deconstruction Workers

Stephanie and Stuff Christian Culture Likes was one of my first follows a decade ago when I began deconstructing. Her work reached me at exactly the right time and I’m so happy she gave me the space to question and to say what I needed to say. Things that had been building up for years. SCCL gave me a space to process my anger, betrayal, and newfound freedom and joy. I am very thankful for that space still. So when I heard she has a podcast now too, it was an instant subscribe.

Stephanie is equal parts soft and savage—a wicked-smart, deeply compassionate human who somehow manages to validate your lived experience while gently handing you a shovel and saying, “Okay, now let’s dig.” She impeccably nurtures the spirit without coddling it. She asks hard questions with kindness, offers practical tools instead of platitudes, and creates space for people to do the difficult work of healing and rebuilding. I have a feeling that if Stephanie knew where you lived, she’d show up on your front porch like, “Hey, I’m here to walk through this with you until you’re strong enough to do it on your own. Also… I brought sandwiches.” That’s the heart of this podcast. Honest. Thoughtful. Challenging. And deeply, deeply human.

Everyone has been waiting with bated breath to find out what Stephy Drury would cook up next. The brilliant creator of Stiff Christian Culture Likes has been working hard behind the scenes to bring down toxic churches (Roast In Perdition, Mars Hill!) and support the least of these, all while questioning the assumptions made not only by the megachurch-latte-sipping and ‘Jesus wants me to have a Learjet’ cultists, but even those who are in the cliquish ‘exvangelical,’ deconstruction-via-gentle-ecumenicalism crowds. As someone who is not afraid to look in the eye of those who are quick to shun their evangelical roots while continuing to embrace the patriarchal, elitist and sex-negative underpinnings that make all of this problematic in the first place, Stephy is the perfect person to host this conversation, mostly because she isn’t completely convinced that she is. No one else is doing this work in public in this way. Welcome to the big tent. Prepare to have your presumptions and your expectations short-circuited in all of the best ways!!! I cannot wait for Episode 2!

A blessing for us to work through the hard things together 🙏🏼