The Quest for Thin Places: How to Find Spirituality after Deconstruction

Breaking things is easy. Rebuilding things is much more difficult. Once you have “deconstructed” from toxic religious beliefs, what is next? Moving from being “religious” to a rich life of spirituality is easier said than done.

The temptation for many people who deconstruct from an unhealthy form of dogmatic fundamentalism is to adopt a new form of non-religious dogmatic fundamentalism that is just as toxic.

Religious deconstruction is not a linear process. We won't one day “arrive” and fig...