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Today I'm grabbing Java with Hannah

Nitz and Trisha Lott Wilford. I wanted to talk about something that is currently happening a lot

in our culture. You've heard me talk about it before. It's the idea of deconstructing from

Christianity. Predominantly young Christians are now walking away from their faith at record

numbers because God hasn't turned out to be who they thought he was. And questions about sexuality

can be a major factor in that. So how do you respond when a friend or family member is

deconstructing or questioning what they believe? How do you walk with them? Do you have to have answers to all their questions? How about if you're deconstructing or questioning what they believe. How do you walk with them? Do you have to have

answers to all their questions? How about if you're deconstructing? Well, that's our conversation

for today. So let's head to the coffee shop with Hannah Nitz and Tricia Williford.

So a new phrase has really been popping up in Christian circles, and it's this phrase

deconstructing from the faith or deconstructing from Christianity.

And there have been some pretty public examples of that, but it's kind of prompted this

conversation of people even just saying, yeah, I'm deconstructing from my evangelical roots or from my childhood faith.

And it has the concept of, I no longer think I believe what I believed in the past.

And I know each of us in our own way, in our own journey, with our own friends, have seen this happen. But I thought it would be good just to have a conversation of what is deconstructing? Why do we deconstruct? And most importantly, like, where's our anger through it? So thanks for joining me for this. Yeah. Yeah. I know you two have never done this, right?

I don't know.

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