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In this powerful and personal episode, author Douglas McKelvey joins Dru Johnson to reflect on his journey through spiritual collapse and recovery—offering a deeply nuanced take on doubt and the popular phenomenon of “deconstruction.” McKelvey shares how his experience at Oral Roberts University shattered his inherited theology, leaving him with no framework to judge what was true and what wasn’t. In that raw season, his only prayer was, “God, I still believe in you—and in Jesus. That’s all I’ve got.”

Unlike many modern expressions of deconstruction, McKelvey’s story wasn’t a trendy rejection of faith but an unchosen collapse—what he likens to a bulldozer flattening his spiritual home. It took years of silence, healing, and later immersion in a healthy church community before he could rebuild a coherent, scripturally grounded faith.

The conversation critiques the cultural elevation of doubt as a marker of authenticity and the reduction of deconstruction to a social signal. Instead, McKelvey invites listeners to see doubt as a space for honest conversation with God—modeled in the Psalms and the prophets—not a license for disengagement.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:03 Personal Journey and Theological Foundations
03:17 Navigating Doubt and Deconstruction