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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 11/09/2026

I will continue speaking honestly about harm inside Christian frameworks, even when those frameworks are considered progressive, compassionate, or the preferred path for people deconstructing.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 01/09/2026

I will never stop screaming the dangers of Christian patriarchy. We’re often so accustomed to its influence that we do not recognize the areas in our lives where we have capitulated or submitted to it.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 26/08/2026

I wasn't done deconstructing in 2020. I'm not done now either. Growth has continued to ask more of me. It has invited me to keep learning, keep unlearning, and keep making room for new understanding. I'm grateful I wasn't finished then and I'm grateful I'm still growing now.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 10/08/2026

President Donald Trump received a booster of his COVID-19 vaccination in the fall of 2025, ensuring he is up-to-date on this vaccination. Just going to leave this here for today 📌

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 29/07/2026

The power of Christian patriarchy extends far beyond churched systems. Many people think Christian patriarchy begins and ends inside a church building. It doesn't. It shapes our institutions, our politics, and the expectations we place on one another.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 30/06/2026

Deconstructing is emotional, mental, and spiritual work. Do not fear visiting the spaces within your being where false narratives and limiting beliefs may be hiding. Do it with support if you feel it is too much to do it alone. The work is worth it.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 23/06/2026

Some people deconstruct church. Others deconstruct Christianity itself. Deconstructing does not lead everyone to the same destination.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 08/06/2026

Patriarchy taught women to fear aging but the Crone was never something to fear. She is the woman who no longer needs permission. No longer needs approval. No longer apologizes for taking up space. She is not fading. She is awakening.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 05/06/2026

Christian patriarchy fears the awakening of women stepping into their power. Systems built on hierarchy and obedience rarely know what to do with women who begin questioning the roles they were taught. Especially women who stop shrinking themselves to protect the comfort or approval of others.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 02/06/2026

Deconstructing is relearning discernment after years of being taught not to trust yourself. Deconstructing often begins the moment you stop silencing the voice inside you that said something about this feels wrong.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 19/05/2026

I was taught obedience before I was taught self-worth. So many women were raised to believe being “good” meant being compliant, agreeable & self-sacrificing. For many of us, deconstructing became the slow and painful process of learning that our worth was never supposed to depend on our obedience.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 13/05/2026

Christianity’s crisis is not persecution. It is exposure. What we’re witnessing right now isn’t Christianity being attacked. We’re watching people see clearly who gets protected, what gets excused, and how quickly power gets prioritized over people. These moments clarify why we walked away.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 11/05/2026

Deconstructing without decolonizing just rebuilds the same house with new paint. Real change asks more than surface-level shifts. It asks us to look beneath what we were taught and question who it was built to serve. Without that, nothing actually changes. We just rearrange what’s already there.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 07/05/2026

A government-endorsed day of prayer rooted in evangelical supremacy threatens both freedom of religion and freedom from it. Today is the National Day of Prayer. Take a closer look at who is shaping it, what is being said, and who is being left out.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 16/04/2026

Many of us were harmed inside white Christian patriarchy. Many of us also benefited from it. Real deconstruction asks us to acknowledge both. That tension is not a contradiction. It’s the beginning of honest work.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 14/04/2026

Many people are willing to deconstruct the parts of Christianity that harmed them, but will fight to hold onto the beliefs that still serve their privilege. And that changes everything.

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The Rooms I’ll Never Belong In

A Former Christian Learns That Not All Deconstructing Spaces are Safe, and It’s Even Worse Than We Knew

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 13/04/2026

Eric Swalwell... Go Home. Get right with your family. Accept accountability and the mirror you're being offered. Original 2025 Video: youtu.be/_HTiluszPlU

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 05/04/2026

To the Kids Who Didn’t Go to Church This Easter

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 04/04/2026

Most people are going to treat this like just another Trump speech but it’s not. What happened in that room matters because this wasn’t just politics. It was a belief system on full display.

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Trump’s Easter Speech Is a Warning We Shouldn’t Ignore

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 02/04/2026

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t what was done to you. It’s telling the truth about who you were inside of it.

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I Was That Woman

The Truth About Who I Was So I Could Become Who I Am

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 27/03/2026

If walking away from harm makes me an apostate, then may we all be brave enough to become one. When people use that word, it’s meant to shut you down, to make you feel like you’ve done something wrong, but what you’ve actually done is step away from something that hurt you. That takes courage.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 26/03/2026

It is not my responsibility to make a church leadership look good or to care about their feelings. If they were doing their job, there wouldn’t be this many people deconstructing.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 26/03/2026

Solitude isn’t always chosen. Sometimes it’s what remains when we refuse to keep silencing ourselves to belong. That space can feel lonely. It can also become the place where honesty returns and self-trust takes root.

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Belonging Nowhere and to No One

For the Unchurched and the Spiritual Wanderer Finding Empowerment in Solitude

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 25/03/2026

“If you left Christianity, how can you still be a Reverend?” I get this question a lot. Sometimes from people who are genuinely curious. Sometimes from people who want to discredit me. To be clear—I’m not a Christian minister. I’m an ordained Interfaith / Interspiritual minister.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 24/03/2026

There is a side of Christianity that does not respond to suffering the way you expect. Not because people are heartless but because their belief system has already made sense of the suffering.

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The Side of Christianity That Will Never Care About Human Suffering

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 24/03/2026

I used to believe God was big enough to share. It was something I carried with me as I left church, a way to hold onto meaning while everything else unraveled but eventually, even that belief fell away. Not with fear. Not with loss. With peace. The mystery that remains... it's enough.

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Why I No Longer Believe that God is Big Enough to Share

In 2020, I posed for a photo wearing a sweatshirt with a phrase that had unexpectedly become part of my “brand”: God is big enough to share. Back then, I didn’t know a thing about marketing, algorithm...

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 23/03/2026

Calling millions of Americans “the greatest enemy” isn’t normal. That kind of language doesn’t come out of nowhere and this is how conditioning works. It’s why this kind of rhetoric lands the way it does.

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Democrats Are Not the “Greatest Enemy” | What This Language Really Does

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 22/03/2026

That feeling when the promise of spring is in the air and knowing I won't be in church today with Christians who worship a man who mocked the passing of a decorated war hero while he sat out of the war because of bone spurs.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 22/03/2026

Grief has a way of slowing everything down. Of making you look at your life and ask what actually matters. I used to believe purpose was something I had to find in God. Something I had to get right. Now, I experience it differently.

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Move in Purpose Without God

A Path of Meaning Rooted in Humanity, Not Heaven

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 20/03/2026

No one said “all.” That phrase shuts down the conversation before it starts. Hundreds of pastors implicated in abuse isn’t coincidence. It’s a pattern. Stop ignoring it.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 19/03/2026

“Please don’t say God or offer a prayer to God in the service.” What stood out to me here is how life without religion isn’t empty, it’s spacious. In that quiet, we can finally begin to notice what feels true, safe, and healing.

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From Southern Baptist to Interfaith and Interspiritual (Part 3)

Belonging Nowhere and to No One

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 15/03/2026

Deconstructing doesn’t remove us from the world’s pain. It sharpens our awareness of it but it also reminds us that spirituality was never meant to be an escape from humanity. It was meant to deepen our responsibility to it.

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The Things I Want to Say…But I Can't

A Former Christian’s Spiritual Reckoning with Our Moral Crisis

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 12/03/2026

If this double standard isn’t obvious by now, it’s because too many systems still protect powerful men while punishing women. #genderinequality

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 11/03/2026

When I began peeling back the layers of evangelical Christianity, I discovered that some of the deepest wounds I carried were from the lies I was taught inside the church. This isn’t just my story. It’s a mirror for anyone who has felt betrayed by the faith that promised love but delivered fear.

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5 Lies Christianity Taught Me

Unlearning the White Savior, Reclaiming the Sacred

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 10/03/2026

Finding a label that fits who you are after leaving your religious heritage can be challenging. There is space here for the label-less. For the spiritually curious and for those still healing, still seeking, still naming themselves on their own terms.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 09/03/2026

Many people begin the process of deconstructing the beliefs they were raised with but far fewer continue the work of examining the deeper structures of power that those beliefs supported. The deeper questions ask how the systems we are leaving shaped power, privilege, and harm.

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Cosplaying Deconstructing

When Leaving the Church Doesn’t Mean Leaving White Christian Patriarchy

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 08/03/2026

So if the Bible is infallible and inerrant and never changing, then explain to me how rapture theology can even be a thing if it’s only 200 years old?

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 07/03/2026

This isn’t just about me. It’s about what happens when you free yourself from dogma and still refuse to make yourself small. I didn’t leave the church to disappear. I left to live more honestly. And I’m not going back. If you’re deconstructing and wondering what comes after, I hope this helps.

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From Southern Baptist to Interfaith and Interspiritual (Part 2)

Walking In—and Defending—My Ordination

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 05/03/2026

Unless these systems that inflict unimaginable suffering time and again crumble, ‘never again’ will always become ‘here we are again.’ If systems of power aren’t dismantled, history doesn’t just repeat itself, it finds new ways to harm.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 04/03/2026

“If you left Christianity, how can you still be a Reverend?” It’s a fair question. One I get asked often. I’m not here to defend a title. I’m here to honor a truth. My ordination didn’t come from Christian approval. It came from years of study, reflection, and choosing a path rooted in compassion.

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From Southern Baptist to Interfaith and Interspiritual (Part 1)

Reflecting on My Interfaith and Interspiritual Ordination

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 03/03/2026

What I can no longer represent is a flawed Christianity that relies on patriarchal structure. Even the most “progressive” churches still harbor patriarchy in quiet, tolerated ways and I could no longer stay silent. Not when that silence would be mistaken as consent.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 01/03/2026

New writing available now: Tone Policing Protects White Christian Power Why You Were Trained to Fear Her Voice

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You Were Trained to Fear Her Voice

How Tone Policing Protects White Christian Power

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 01/03/2026

Take-heart Deconstructing Souls. At least we're not headed to church where Christians will shrug and say the unaliving of school girls was God's will then head into the sanctuary to hear a sermon on how God loves everyone.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 27/02/2026

Seventeen days. That’s how long it has been since the President of the United States of America posted a video showing the Obamas’ faces superimposed on the bodies of dancing apes. Some of us feel as if we’ve lived a lifetime since that video was posted, because as usual, Trump... Read More...

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Being Called a “Snowflake” Isn’t Weakness

The Hypocrisy in Disparaging Creation

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 26/02/2026

Modern American Evangelical Christianity will not survive the demise of patriarchy, and I’m here for it. As more of us wake up, speak out, and walk away, the system will crumble and something more compassionate will rise.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 25/02/2026

They asked for a conversation. I thought they were curious about my story. Turns out, they were looking for a strategy to get me back in the pew. What they didn’t understand is that many of us didn’t walk away casually. We walked away with intention, with grief, and often with no support.

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Stop Kicking the Unchurched from the Table

The Treatment of Non-Religious People Reflects Your Bias Against Us

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 24/02/2026

High-control, fundamentalist Christianity has weaponized the Holy Spirit to create the illusion that church leaders have more direct access to it than the average person. When spiritual authority is used to convince you that someone else hears from the Divine more clearly than you do, it’s control.

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Rev Karla @revkarla.com · 23/02/2026

Some of us didn’t speak up as children because we knew we were not safe and now, watching the silence, denial, or defense of abuse happening again can make those old wounds feel raw all over. You did not deserve what happened to you and you deserve spaces that feel safe now.

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