In the 1990s we had the great boom of church planting. Mega-churches around the country gave us their greatest hits and programs to teach all of the littlest churches how to become mini-mega-churches. Was it a success? A failure? What happened to those church plants? Those programs? And what’s the future of the church now?

Deconstruction is a really popular term among Christians and ex-Christians but it’s also taking a lot of heat in the Evangelical world. Celebrity pastors are accusing people of deconstructing because it’s cool or because they want street credibility. What is deconstruction? Why is it a big deal? Is deconstruction the right term? Is there a better one?

I will say that the deeper you dig, the more you reasons you can have for denying that this has any legitimate basis as theology and calling it what it is - political strategy.

The problem is that I, as a current Pastor, parent, husband, community volunteer, business owner, avid reader, seminary grad, informed individual, am struggling to see positive contributions beyond this singular one by the American Evangelical stream of influence.