Hey everybody, welcome, welcome, we're so glad that you've joined us for this conversation

tonight.

We're going to be talking about the phenomenon of deconstruction and what relation that

might have to the contemporary Christian music industry.

So at first I just want to make a few introductory comments about deconstruction.

So there's different ways to define deconstruction in different people, define it in different

ways.

But the way we're going to be taking a look at it tonight is from a sort of a broad level

and what it looks like when it's kind of played out in the practical world.

And so how it looks is very often we've seen over the last year or two highly-platformed

Christians, many from the CCM industry, begin to question their faith and they'll put

a post on social media saying, look, I had these questions or this is something I've

been thinking about.

And essentially by the end of it, they have gone through a process where many of the

beliefs that they grew up with and maybe never questioned critically or intellectually

are picked apart and often rejected.

Now not everybody who goes through a process of deconstruction becomes an atheist or an

agnostic, some do and some come back to maybe a more progressive type of Christianity.

In rare cases, some will reconstruct back to a more historically Christian faith that

has the historic Christian gospel at its center.

But very often it's just more of a broader spirituality or agnosticism or atheism.

And so we've seen this phenomenon happen and so I'm so excited to introduce you to

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