HeyJaredJoe Boyd (The Deconstructed Pastor)
I’m a former pastor helping people questioning their faith deconstruct in a healthy, honest way.
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Is “God Hates Divorce” Really in the Bible? (opens the original)
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“God Hates Divorce”How one disputed translation shaped evangelical marriages—and what Matthew’s Jesus was actually confronting“God hates divorce.”If you grew up evangelical, you probably heard that sentence more times than you could count.You may not have known where it appeared in the Bible. You may never have read it in context. But you knew it was there.God hates divorce was a mantra for many of us growing up. Alongside its counterpart:Divorce is not an option.Those p
“We Only Work with Believers”: My Work on Substack Cost Me a Client This Week (opens the original)
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“We Only Do Business with Believers”Writing this Substack isn’t my primary work. I’m a speaker, strategist, trainer, and coach who helps people and companies tell better stories.Most of my work these days involves storytelling workshops for sales and marketing teams and story strategy for CEOs and other leaders. I also coach individuals who want to get better at telling their own stories.I love my job.But something happened this week that, if I’m honest, I’m surprised hasn’t happened more often
Does the Gospel of Thomas Contain the Hidden Teachings of Jesus? (AMA) (opens the original)
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AMA: What Do You Think About the Gospel of Thomas?A reader asks:What do you think about the Gospel of Thomas? Why isn’t it in the Bible, and should Christians pay any attention to it?I love this question because the Gospel of Thomas tends to attract two very different kinds of certainty.On one side, you sometimes hear that Thomas was one of the original Gospels, perhaps even containing the real teachings of Jesus, until powerful church leaders suppressed it because its mystical Jesus threatened
I Was a Successful Evangelical Pastor. Then I Deconstructed. This is My Story. (opens the original)
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This week, Deconstructed Pastor crossed 3,000 subscribers. When I started it about 18 months ago, I wasn’t sure anyone would want to read it. I’m grateful to every one of you who has subscribed.It occurred to me that many of you probably don’t know my full story. Below is the article I posted here when I started. It was the first time I’d told my whole story publicly, and I was nervous to hit publish, even with zero subscribers.I don’t regret it at all. In the year and a half since, I’ve met hun
The Day I Accidentally Came Out as a Deconsructed Pastor (opens the original)
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About 19 months ago, I got on TikTok to talk about Christian Nationalism from the perspective of an ex-evangelical pastor.What came out in one take is below.And in doing it, I sort of accidentally came out myself.Before that day in February 2025, I had not been fully honest anywhere online about my current views of the Bible. For more than a decade, I mostly let people believe whatever they wanted to believe about my faith.I simply wasn’t ready to talk about it for many years. I didn’t want to e
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