#exvangelical and all that
Episode #40 welcomes Blake Chastain who coined the #exvangelical hashtag alongside the launch of the Exvangelical podcast in July 2016. Exvangelical conversations and communities have proliferated online across social networks like Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit.
Blake Chastain is host of the Exvangelical and Powers & Principalities podcasts, and writer of The Post-Evangelical Post newsletter. He is also writing a book with Convergent, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
“Exvangelical” functions as both a way to find others who have left white evangelical beliefs and communities behind, as well as a helpful frame for criticizing white evangelical institutions and practices. It is not a wholesale replacement of evangelicalism, but a shared starting point–it acknowledges that we are rooted in similar experiences, and celebrates the new and diverse ways people find to flourish.
Show Notes
- Intro to this episode. 0:14
- Which hashtags should I be using #exvangelical? 4:06
- Tiktok is the biggest surprise of all time, with over 400 million impressions on Instagram and over 100,000 daily impressions on Twitter.
- Criticisms of the white evangelical movement. 12:40
- How did the idea of the podcast come about? 20:12
- Spiritual practices that draw you back to yourself. 28:18
- Pulling yourself out of christianity. 35:47
- The value of reclaiming Christianity. 41:57
- The power of the interwebs. 48:33
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Intro and Outro are tracks from Drew Brown’s album, “Hymns for the Architect.” http://www.drewbrownmusic.com/.
