Category: Unshaken: becoming unshaken in Christ

In the last Unshaken entry, I asked whether the Bible could actually be trusted from a secular perspective. I wanted to know whether the book sitting in front of me had been reliably preserved, whether it was rooted in real history, and whether we could reasonably know that what we are reading today reflects what…

In the last post, I left you with a pretty big question: Can I actually trust the Bible? Because if I was going to question years of beliefs, traditions, doctrines, and things I had been told were absolutely, positively, unquestionably true and then test those things against Scripture, Scripture itself couldn’t get a free pass.…

In my first Unshaken entry, I ended by saying that I eventually put everything I believed on the table and began examining it one piece at a time. That process is what I mean when I talk about deconstruction, although I know that word can make Christians a little nervous. Depending on who is using…

Before the Deconstruction Every faith journey has a beginning, and mine began with a little girl who simply loved Jesus. Some of my earliest memories of faith are incredibly simple. When I was around five years old, I came home from school and announced that I had talked to Jesus on the playground and that…