Curtis Chang Answers Your Questions: Deconstruction, Worship Across Divides, and Life After Death
Release Date: 03/27/2025
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info_outlineThanks 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.
Send written questions or voice memos for “Ask Curtis” episodes to: [email protected]
Send Campfire Stories to: [email protected]
Resources or references mentioned in this episode:
- Patrick Schreiner: Recovering the Forgotten Doctrine of Christ’s Ascension
- N.T. Wright: the Ascension of Jesus and Heaven
- N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
- The Thin Places of Fantasy
- The Nicene Creed
- The Lord's Prayer
- Philippians 3:18-21 (New Living Translation)
- Foreign Aid Is Retreating. The Church Must Not
- Judge: Musk and Trump’s effort to disband USAID is likely unconstitutional
- Daniel 2:21 (English Standard Version)
- 33 Evil Kings of the Old Testament
- I Samuel 8 (Israel asks for a king) (New Living Translation)
- Explore The After Party with Russell Moore, David French, & Curtis Chang
- Answers to questions about The After Party
- Judah & the Lion’s Beautiful Anyway (official music video)
- Judah & the Lion’s website
- Wendell Kimborough’s website
- Sandra McCraken’s website
- Andrew Peterson’s website
- Dave Brubeck’s Time Out album (including Take Five)
- Dave Brubeck’s Fight Against Racism
- Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man
- Herbie Hancock’s Rockit
Enjoy this Spotofy playlist featuring the artists Curtis mentioned in this episode
Good Faith conversations mentioned in this episode:
- David French: Has America’s Role in the World Changed Forever? and Your Questions
- David French: Checks, Balances, and the New Trump Era
- Sandra McCracken: How Music Helps Us Make Sense of God's World
- Advent with Friends: Andrew Peterson and The Way of Love
- Andy Crouch: How to Listen to Music
- Andy Crouch: Do We Need a Worship Music Reformation?
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