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The Price of Whiteness and the Spiritual Crisis of Exvangelicals

The Price of Whiteness and the Spiritual Crisis of Exvangelicals

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Tamice Spencer-Helms
Jan 05, 2025
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The Price of Whiteness and the Spiritual Crisis of Exvangelicals
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There’s a crisis happening among white people leaving Christianity—especially those coming out of evangelicalism. Many have deconstructed their faith, abandoned church, and sought new spiritual frameworks. But if they never excavated white supremacy, they find themselves in the lurch, spiritually unmoored, looking for something solid to hold onto.

That’s where the R.E.S.T. Mixtape comes in.

The R.E.S.T. Mixtape isn’t just about deconstructing Christianity—it’s about building new wineskins that can hold a spirituality capable of resisting empire, resisting supremacy, and fostering true liberation. And what most white people leaving Christianity don’t realize is that they don’t actually want boundlessness—they want scaffolding. They want a container, a framework, a structure to hold what they believe. The problem is, most of the spiritual scaffolding available to them still operates within a framework of whiteness, which means it lacks the depth, endurance, and resistance needed to truly …

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