Faith and Common Ground
Season 6 Episode 7 After Deconstruction
What happens when you’ve been hurt by religion, struggled with addiction, questioned the institutions you once trusted—and yet you don’t walk away from faith? In this episode, we talk with Angelica about her very honest, very complicated, and deeply meaningful spiritual journey. Her story doesn't fit neatly into the categories of “faithful” or “deconstructed,” “orthodox” or “unchurched.” Instead, she has learned to take the pieces of her experience—the good, the painful, the things that worked and the things that didn’t—and integrate them into a faith that is uniquely her own. Angelica is remarkably candid about the choices she has made and the ways her journey might be judged by others. But she also talks about the freedom that comes from recognizing that there isn't always a well-marked path for where we're going. As we wrap up our series on deconstructing from religion, this conversation feels like a perfect off-ramp. Because maybe deconstruction isn't about tearing everything down. Maybe it's about figuring out what is worth keeping—and then beginning to build. Maybe it's time to do some constructing.
