Evangelically Departed
Todd Wiebe, Allison WilliamsFax machines used to be amazing. Evangelicalism perhaps used to be great. Now, there are better ways of understanding faith and theology. Thoughts and reflections on leaving evangelicalism and finding humanity and faith.
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A Preamble, And All Those Elections
Before a few thoughts on voting, I thought I’d share a lovely image about the blessing of church.
Often in Evangelically Departed, I write about observations of the excesses of evangelicalism or about the inconsistencies of religious cult...
Televangelists, Sales and Success
I remember hearing novelist Marilynne Robinson speak at Regent College in Vancouver a decade or so ago. She had, in the lecture and the Q and A time mentioned the sometimes unthinking ways that churches can embrace technology in pursuit of...
Belief Changes
Did your experience of church in the past leave room for the reality that belief changes? For most people, what we believe changes and how we believe changes.
I met a man yesterday who does not exist. We were connected through a mutual fri...
Whose Fault is it Anyway?
Recent research from the Pew Research Center has found that the retention rate of the Mormon church in the United States has dropped from 70% in 2007 to 54% in 2023–24. Retention rate here refers to the percentage of people who were raised...
Fear and Love of Stranger
There is no faith without the stranger.
Christianity faces a number of crises, currently. Most of these are not novel manifestations but the ways in which they are showing up in our current culture and have been brewing for some time. You...
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I used to be a pastor at an evangelical church. But used to be's don't count anymore.
Current theological student and possible heretic (it depends who you ask).
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