Hey, I'm Natasha Crane, and I'm Elisa Childers.

Welcome to Unshaking Faith, where we equip you to live your Christian faith

boldly in a chaotic culture. We've all seen the deconstructions stories that flood our social media news feeds and we've heard claims of toxic theology and the

hashtag ex-Vangelical propensity to identify historic Christian doctrine and

ethics as oppressive and harmful. But what if there's a connection between deconstruction

and the modern impulse to seek therapy,

psychological diagnoses, and therapeutic language

to explain a way objective truth claims about God and morality.

That's a big question and it's one we're going to do our best to tackle in today's episode.

Both Natasha and I recently read Abigail Shrier's new book, Bad Therapy,

Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up.

And we both agree that this is one of the most important books written for our current

cultural moment and interestingly Abigail Schreier is not a

Christian yet I think she might have put her finger on some significant insights

that relate to the deconstruction phenomenon that is just sweeping through the church.

So if you haven't heard words and phrases like iatrogenesis, social emotional learning, and

gentle parenting, buckle up because those terms represent a massive shift in the

worldview of our culture and I'm wondering if it contributes to deconstruction as well.

I'm eager to find out in a moment if Natasha agrees with me, but first don't

miss this announcement and our tips of the week.

Well you might have noticed that we didn't have an episode last week. That's because we were both

on spring break, so we took a little

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