I’ve been thinking and writing about how political power corrupts the message of Jesus since at least 2019.

In 2025, I’m thinking about it a lot more.

Since 2016, I’ve been mourning how quickly the tradition that raised me has seemed to throw out the words of Christ in defense of a man who embodies the opposite of Jesus most of the time.

“Means justify the ends. He’s helping us become a Christian nation again. Christians will no longer be persecuted under Trump. He may be rough around the edges, but he’s looking out for us!”

These are the refrains I hear from the very people who told me to trust God above all else. Suddenly it’s felt like the message morphed to “Trust God and Trump.” And I have type a lot of words onto the internet about not trusting the government to do God’s work as a result.

But here’s a disturbing realization I have noticed in myself…

We’re in part three of common experiences of deconstructing faith. Today we’re digging into the ins and outs of how your day-to-day life begins to change as well as getting intentional with personal practices and community after a faith shift.

Let’s dive into part 2 of this series and talk about some of the secondary stages of deconstructing your faith. Once you walk through the initial crisis and rediscover some of your identity, questions of what you believe and how to discern begin to surface.