The Data on Deconstruction

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Faith deconstruction - the intentional examination of one's religious faith and beliefs, leading to a profound change in, or even loss of, that faith - has received increasing attention in the past few years. But, who are the people who deconstruct their faith, what causes them to do so and where does the journey take them? Olivia Jackson's new book (Un)Certain is a collective memoir built on the stories and reflections of over 150 interviewees and nearly 400 survey respondents from all over the world, including the author's own story. These are ordinary people who reached the end of their (predominantly) evangelical road and had the courage to keep walking. It is woven around themes and shared experiences which came up time and again, and reveals a picture of deeply committed believers (including clergy) who reached a breaking point with the certainties and doctrines they spent years or even decades professing. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334063636/uncertain To Donate: venmo - @straightwhitejc Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an irreverent podcast.
0:03.7	Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.
0:23.1	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:25.0	My name is Brad O'Neighe, faculty at the University of San Francisco.
0:28.5	And I'm joined today by writer and author Olivia Jackson, who's just written a brand new book,
0:33.3	uncertain, a collective memoir of deconstructing faith.
0:36.1	So Olivia, thanks for joining me.
0:38.9	Thanks for having me here.
0:40.5	I'm really excited to talk to you.
0:42.2	I'm not going to lie.
0:43.0	There are a lot of books out there about topics surrounding ex evangelicals and deconstruction
0:48.5	and things like that.
0:49.7	And it's kind of hard to tell which ones to read and which ones are really going to teach you
0:54.5	something and which ones are going to really be important.
0:57.1	When I learned about your book, I was really excited because you interviewed, well,
1:01.7	not interview, but you sent out a survey and it was responded to by about 400 people.
1:05.7	And then you followed up with interviews with all of those people.
1:07.7	And so when we think about your book, uncertain, it's not just your story.
1:12.2	It's not just the story of one or two people, but it's really a broad swath of people
1:16.7	who have deconstructed their faith.
1:18.5	And you asked them all about like, what caused their deconstruction?
1:22.1	What was some of the final straws leading them out of their communities?
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