Deconstruction Has a Grief Problem Nobody Is Talking About

Deconstruction Has a Grief Problem Nobody Is Talking About

Deconstruction has two public faces. One is triumphant — the Instagram post, the podcast episode, the memoir deal. The other is silent — a person who stops showing up to church and never quite explains why. What neither face shows is grief. And for most people going through it, grief is most of what it is. Deconstruction — the process of critically examining and often dismantling one’s inherited religious beliefs — has become one of the defining…