Mark and Rex discuss the growing and vocal movement of ex-evangelicals and highlight key causes for this movement away from the evangelical label. They also discuss the postChristian leap that many make, especially some recent high profile figures within the evangelical community.

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host, Mark Moore and your co host Rex Gurney. And today on the show, we're going to be talking about, I think, a really important issue, an issue of people leaving the evangelical movement and leaving it publicly Yeah, leaving it publicly. And then and then a group that has left now identifying themselves as ex Benjamin tells, and kind of forming a community is saying, Hey, we were all part of something. And now we're not right, and finding community in that. And so we really wanted because there's this, this is a an issue that I think is really important. And there's been recent, recent people kind of publicly leaving a faith leaving the church, I think it's important for us to talk about it. So I really hope you enjoy the show. I hope you keep an open mind as we kind of walk through this and kind of look at this phenomenon that's happening, and maybe what are some of the reasons and what are some of the reactions we can have? It's an important conversation.

1:06

Alright, Rex, we are what I really love about maybe where this episode can go. Okay. Is and I have no idea actually. That's true. I mean, you know, topically, well, I know, we've talked, we've we've talked about this, but but I think it's just something for us to to really discuss and kind of explore I want to kind of take the next 30 ish minutes right to, to explore and really to exploring this kind of recent phenomenon, but not really and won't will highlight that. Right. But kind of a recent phenomenon of, of people leaving the evangelical movement, right. And some have put terms to that, like the x Van jellicle movement, or even x Bs, right. Like, and, and there's been a community that has formed, right, right. around that, like, and, and I think that that area is really interesting to me, right?

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levels of levels, the fact that it actually is kind of a, what some people will call a hashtag community. It's also really interesting. And yes, seeing the advent of a lot of those the whole Black Lives Matters. And you know, just you just name it.

2:19

Yeah. And kind of make use of social media, to connect groups of people, right, and to find community, right. And there's been this kind of community forming of saying, Hey, we were in the evangelical movement, but now we're not.

2:34

And that not means different things for different Yeah, yeah, that's true, which makes it really interesting phenomena and also

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there. And I think with that, there's been kind of then kind of high profile people who've been voiced that right, and that adds another layer. And not, not all of those more recent ones have been necessarily just ex evangelical, some of have been been moving to post christian right, saying, Hey, I don't think I can call myself a Christian anymore.

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Some are atheists, some are agnostic, some are I don't know what I am some right into what they feel are more progressive forms of Christianity, some sort of stay on the margins, right, and feel that they're being prophetic on the margins. And so the sort of, I don't know, xx fees still, you know, on the outer edges of the camp.

3:27

Right. Right. And I think that's one thing that I've I do appreciate about, I think the community because I think there needs to be room for people saying, Hey, I think you're getting this wrong. Right. Right. And I think that's important. I mean, that's, that's kind of what the prophets did. And they weren't always well liked for it. Right. Right. And so I'm always, I always want to be careful about any type of knee jerk reaction. Right.

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Right. And, and as you mentioned before, this i