Today we live in an era where prominent Christians seem to “deconvert” from Christianity. That’s shocking enough but what are we to make of it when a loved one who once claimed to be a believer abandons the faith? Keith and Mark make sense of it all in episode 004 of “Keith Crosby: Out of My Mind.” Keith and Mark will discuss the following five questions:

• You had originally entitled today’s discussion “Deconstructing Deconversion” why the change?

• How does this connect with your previous podcasts on Critical Theory and Education and Critical Theory and the Church—and the Pulpit and Politics. I sensed in a theme in Season One, does this theme continue here? What’s the connection?

• Whether it’s a Rock Star Pastor like Josh Harris or the YouTube Celebrities who used to be with Campus Crusade, or CRU, or Marty Sampson, a worship music writer, singer, and active member of Hillsong has publicly denounced his faith on social media—or someone’s son or daughter or sibling or parents—or a loved one walks away, the larger questions are:
• What happened? What do we make of all this?
• Can you lose your salvation?

• Are you saying that these people were not saved in the first place? Because people would say that they sure seemed saved…

• What do you say to a parent or family member who’s heartbroken and bewildered by all this? Sometimes, I know from my own ministry, family was never really engaged in a student’s discipleship but other times I’ve seen it where a parent, or both parents did all they could, and their kids walk away. What’s your take on this?