Welcome to Episode One. Before we start questioning ideas, doctrines, or traditions, we need to explain why we’re here. Hi, we are Jake and Josh, and we grew up fundamentalist Independent Baptist.

This first episode isn’t about theology, arguments, or scholarship. It’s about our stories. We grew up inside Christianity. We didn’t arrive at our beliefs randomly—we inherited them. Church, worship, certainty, fear, comfort, community. For a long time, these ideas didn’t just shape what we believed… they shaped who we were. In this episode, we share our personal testimonies—how faith gave us meaning, how doubt crept in, and what started to fracture the certainty we were taught to protect. Not because we wanted to rebel. Not because we were offended. But because honesty demanded it. Deconstruction isn’t a moment. It’s a slow unraveling. A series of questions you can’t un-ask once they appear. This podcast exists because of that process. These aren’t our ideas. They were handed to us, taught to us, defended for us. And now, for the first time, we’re willing to examine them openly—without fear of where the questions might lead. This is Episode One: our stories, our backgrounds, and the journey that brought us here. #Christianity #Deconstruction #BiblicalScholarship #FaithAndDoubt #QuestioningFaith #BibleStudy #HistoricalJesus #NewTestament #TheologyPodcast #ReligiousDeconstruction #Exvangelical #PhilosophyOfReligion #ChristianPodcast #BibleCriticism #BeliefSystems #SpiritualDeconstruction #DoubtAndFaith #ReligiousTrauma #BibleHistory #JesusStudies #CriticalThinking #Theology #DeconstructingFaith