The Liminal

The good company of the wilderness

For many of us, faith has been a tangled web of constructive & beautiful experiences mixed in with harmful ideas & baggage. “Deconstruction”  is a necessary process of untangling the good from the bad. However, deconstruction culture can be so good at the  tearing down part that ultimately, the people brave enough to question the intellectual or ethical foundations of their faith group are the ones  left without all the benefits that come from belief and community: things like a hopeful/redemptive worldview, community care, and empowerment for activism rooted in love and justice. In this episode, I offer a framework that has helped me untangle the constructive parts of Christian spirituality from the baggage, and why I see the wilderness as more hopeful and holy of a place than it feels (even when it sucks).

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Launching next week: a refreshing take on Christian deconstruction and reconstruction that focuses on emotional resilience and intellectual honesty.
The Liminal is a space to search for the best examples of Christian faith in scholarship and in action, not as a means of apologetics or persuasion, but rather as a means of healing from past baggage and finding empowerment in our spirituality again.
Follow along for topics that intersect with faith such as mental health, theology, church history, science, and activism.
Hosted by Kristin Calderone, MSED and alumna of The Living School