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Curtis Chang Answers Your Questions: Deconstruction, Worship Across Divides, and Life After Death

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Release Date: 03/27/2025

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Thanks to your questions, Good Faith listeners are the guests of this episode that’s meant to spark spiritual insights and challenge church norms.

 

From queries about navigating belief in a politically toxic climate to finding community after deconstruction, Curtis answers your questions with thoughtfulness, wisdom, and compassion. Whether you’re wrestling with faith, curious about theology, or just want to know what’s on Curtis’ playlist, this episode delivers the answers that inquiring minds wanted to know.

 

Curtis addresses:

  • How can someone who has deconstructed find meaningful, Christ-centered community?
  • What role should the church play when professed followers of Jesus undermine the gospel?
  • What does it mean that God "removes kings and sets up kings"?
  • How can we love fellow church members who politically diverge from us?
  • Is The After Party project truly nonpartisan—and how was it funded?
  • Will artificial intelligence reshape sermon preparation?
  • What will life be like in the new heavens and new earth?

Plus: Curtis reveals his five favorite musical artists and the name of the song that opens every Good Faith episode.

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