Interesting to me the # of people I went to seminary with who are now #deconstructing their faith. These aren't everyday Evangelicals. These are trained in an Evangelical institution - a good one, at that - who started working in churches and experienced early ministerial trauma.
It raises the question of whether the intellectual and spiritual formation of seminary students is really preparing us not only to pastor people but also training us to survive the traumatic experience that is church-employment.
I don't blame these folks one bit. While I'm not necessarily in a deconstructive period (unless the whole of my faith is always that...which may be), I have been traumatized by church employment and can easily see how someone could walk away from it all after working in a church.
Seminary trained me to exegete scripture and offer a prophetic word. It did not train me for what to do when the systems of denominational affiliation or the systems of individual church-life were toxic, racist, classist, etc.
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