by Cynthia Davis | Faith Deconstruction, Identity, Spiritual Writing
My husband Brad and I were sitting in one of our favorite pizza places one mid-October evening when I wasn’t in North Carolina, Norfolk, or holed away with a giant mug of coffee and a bowl of popcorn tapping out a school term paper. I’d just started my second year in...
by Scott Okamoto | Faith Deconstruction, Identity
Dear Friend of Lake Drive Books, Here’s a guest blog post from Lake Drive Books author R. Scott Okamoto—his helpful response to the Publishers Weekly review of his book, Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University. If...
by David Morris | Faith Deconstruction, Identity
Friends of Lake Drive Books, It must take a lot of ambition to start a college or university: massive amounts of funding, establishing a physical location, hiring faculty and administration, angling for accreditation, and so much more. But most of all, it takes a...
by Marla Taviano | Faith Deconstruction, Identity
Dear Friend of Lake Drive Books, Here’s a guest blog post from Lake Drive Books author Marla Taviano. Like so many of us, Marla has been on a journey of change, and what’s unique about Marla is that she started an Instagram account focusing on books by...
by David Morris | Faith Deconstruction, Identity
If you want a short answer, here it is. On the one hand, evangelicalism is an approach to Christianity that is the functional equivalent of a political movement. That’s a big statement, so let’s put it another way. Evangelicalism is a social club with self-determined...
by David Morris | Faith Deconstruction, Spiritual Writing
The song “Nothing But Flowers” by the Talking Heads casts a post-something (post-apocalyptic? post-modern? post-evangelical?) vision where once there was a factory, and now there are mountains and rivers. Or once there was a parking lot, and now it’s covered with...
