It's the boogeyman that haunts churches across the land: religious deconstruction. This is the process of genuinely questioning your religious faith, pulling apart what you've been taught (probably your whole life), sifting through it all, and deciding for yourself what actually works for you, without regard for what anyone else has to say about the matter. It can be a deeply disorienting--even terrifying--process, but more and more people are choosing this road.

Well, we've got social media darling Rev Karla with us to talk about her own deconstruction journey, and give us some insights into this isolating, but also liberating process. She literally wrote the book on the topic! Karla Kamstra went from attending a small Southern Baptist church in Kentucky to being an online guide for people looking to throw off their religion, and figure out what's true for them.

Find Rev Karla's book, Deconstructing: Leaving Church, Finding Faith anywhere you get your books, including here:

https://shop.revkarla.com/collections/healing-and-support-collection/products/deconstructing-leaving-church-finding-faith

You can find her social media posts here:

https://www.tiktok.com/@revkarla?lang=en

https://www.instagram.com/revkarla/

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