{"id":115987,"date":"2025-01-16T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=115987"},"modified":"2025-01-16T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T05:15:19","slug":"walking-through-deconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=115987","title":{"rendered":"Walking Through Deconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"890b53a0-d312-42b8-85e4-6a3e7ab6c838\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">I suppose by now we all know a least a few people who have begun the process of deconstructing their faith. Meanwhile, we have undoubtedly heard of many more who are doing so in a public way\u2014celebrities who have decided to rigorously examine the faith they once professed and to reject much of what they once held dear. Deconstruction, it seems, is all the rage.<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"c4de2dc1-fc47-4899-9b5b-17589991393b\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"3914e4af-19c6-4c12-9dbe-4e09ad7f955d\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> Walking Through Deconstruction <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"c71279cc-42ec-4ca8-badd-3c4d29a498ae\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e091ec4a-c55c-4fcc-8b7c-052513e9dce9\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Ian Harber<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"dc194708-28dc-41d2-aeb2-b77660737d80\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"fabb6172-0679-4563-9c40-f324f9bf987b\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"f782dac5-c43d-428e-888b-dc82a4cc3ee5\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/walking-through-deconstruction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"81462e75-a3af-464d-ba05-796e959dbd0a\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ian Harber is familiar with both the allure and the process of deconstruction. He was raised in the church and followed the rules of conservative evangelicalism. He tried to live a godly life. But as he grew up and began to grapple with deep matters, he found himself increasingly concerned about what he had been taught about hell, science, the roles of men and women, and much else. Eventually, he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose by now we all know a least a few people who have begun the process of deconstructing their faith. Meanwhile, we have undoubtedly heard of many more who are doing so in a public way\u2014celebrities who have decided to rigorously examine the faith they once professed and to reject much of what they once held dear. Deconstruction, it seems, is all the rage.See AlsoThe Deconstruction of ChristianityDeconstruction, Exvangelicals, and Jumping Overboard from an Ocean LinerFriday Ramblings \u2013 A Critical, Judgmental Deconstruction of Derek Webb\u2019s Life, Faith and Ministry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":116001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-115987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/osarugue-igbinoba-nij9evlKAck-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116002,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115987\/revisions\/116002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}