Tag: Exvangelical Movement

The exvangelical movement is a broad cultural and social movement associated with people who have left, questioned, or substantially reconsidered evangelical religious identity, teachings, or institutions.

Its participants hold diverse theological positions, including continued Christian faith, religious reaffiliation, agnosticism, and nonbelief.

The movement has provided spaces for examining evangelical upbringing, authority, gender expectations, religious harm, and institutional accountability.

The Institute distinguishes participation in exvangelical discourse from adult-child estrangement and from religious deconstruction, recognizing that these experiences may intersect without being identical.

  • When the Children Raised to Obey Begin to Leave

    A fifty-year historical examination of evangelical family formation, coercive religious authority, institutional betrayal, and the long-term consequences of religious trauma. Through the Institute’s Captivity Lens, this publication traces childhood obedience, gendered responsibility, pastoral and clinical accountability, adult estrangement, deconstruction, CPTSD,…