Curtis Chang Answers Your Questions: Deconstruction, Worship Across Divides, and Life After Death

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Thanks to your questions, Good Faith listeners are the guests of this episode that’s meant to spark spiritual insights and challenge church norms.

From queries about navigating belief in a politically toxic climate to finding community after deconstruction, Curtis answers your questions with thoughtfulness, wisdom, and compassion. Whether you’re wrestling with faith, curious about theology, or just want to know what’s on Curtis’ playlist, this episode delivers the answers that inquiring minds wanted to know.

Curtis addresses:

How can someone who has deconstructed find meaningful, Christ-centered community?
What role should the church play when professed followers of Jesus undermine the gospel?
What does it mean that God "removes kings and sets up kings"?
How can we love fellow church members who politically diverge from us?
Is The After Party project truly nonpartisan—and how was it funded?
Will artificial intelligence reshape sermon preparation?
What will life be like in the new heavens and new earth?

Plus: Curtis reveals his five favorite musical artists and the name of the song that opens every Good Faith episode.

Send written questions or voice memos for “Ask Curtis” episodes to: [email protected]

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Resources or references mentioned in this episode:

Patrick Schreiner: Recovering the Forgotten Doctrine of Christ’s Ascension
N.T. Wright: the Ascension of Jesus and Heaven
N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
The Thin Places of Fantasy
The Nicene Creed
The Lord's Prayer
Philippians 3:18-21 (New Living Translation)
Foreign Aid Is Retreating. The Church Must Not
Judge: Musk and Trump’s effort to disband USAID is likely unconstitutional
Daniel 2:21 (English Standard Version)
33 Evil Kings of the Old Testament
I Samuel 8 (Israel asks for a king) (New Living Translation)
Explore The After Party with Russell Moore, David French, & Curtis Chang
Answers to questions about The After Party
Judah & the Lion’s Beautiful Anyway (official music video)
Judah & the Lion’s website
Wendell Kimborough’s website
Sandra McCraken’s website
Andrew Peterson’s website
Dave Brubeck’s Time Out album (including Take Five)
Dave Brubeck’s Fight Against Racism
Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man
Herbie Hancock’s Rockit

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Simply because you have been set up as a king does not mean you are going to do that well.
0:08.5	God allows us and gives us sort of room to do things poorly, even if God allowed that ruler to be installed. Welcome to the Good Faith podcast on your host, Curtis Chang, and the Good Faith podcast is we're friends who follow Jesus
0:39.8	help each other make sense of the world. And for today, we have a special way to help each other
0:46.9	make sense of the world. We're doing a Ask Me Anything episode with myself as the person being asked.
0:56.5	And so we needed to have somebody do the asking. And that's why I invited my producer, good friend, and director of content for
1:03.5	Redeeming Babel, D.T. Sloffman, D.T., welcome. Well, thanks, Curtis. It's actually an honor to be
1:10.3	able to represent all of our listeners. and you all sent in some great questions. We got so many more questions than we'll even be able to get to today. So keep listening. I'm sure we'll do more of these episodes. But as I feel like that Dave Letterman mailbag song is starting to play in my head,
1:31.3	we'll just dive right into it. I am not going to do a top 10 list, though. No, but we get letters.
1:37.9	We get letters. We get stacks and stacks of letters. So let's dive right into our mailbag with the deep stuff, Curtis, the deep stuff.
1:47.9	We're not going to start easy.
1:49.0	We'll finish easy.
1:50.6	Are you up for some deconstruction and feelings of homelessness?
1:55.3	Yes, absolutely.
1:56.4	All right.
1:57.0	Some of our core audiences, yeah.
1:58.7	Okay.
1:59.1	So we actually don't get a ton of correspondence from listeners that are deconstructing,
2:05.8	at least that they tell us they're deconstructing.
2:08.6	And so that's one reason this email stood out to me.
2:12.1	And the process where individuals critically examine and question the religious beliefs
2:17.1	and faith traditions
2:18.2	has always been present.
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