The saddest part of it is that you’ve drawn some very heavy assumptions about my use of the term deconstruction and reconstruction.  In no way have I ever thrown out the deconstructive process.  I’ve never lost site of it in my own process.  If you had read my book, you would have known that.  You would have understood why I would never have drawn the conclusion you made about deconstruction being childish.  It’s a central part of the human experience.  But you failed to understand why I made those comments, post, and even wrote a book on it.  In fact, I even offered you an opportunity to read an advanced copy. I’m not offering “calcified reconstruction.”

Deconstruction has and always will be an immensely important part of the process, but faith is not built on the absence of something, but the trust in the presence of something we cannot control.  To live exclusively in deconstruction is to live in the void.  Love is not informed by the void, but instead by the Spirit.  It’s elusive yes, but not unknowable.

What’s funny about it all is that I sat listening to Peter Rollins share this last week essentially the same conclusion I made in my book.  He even said to me that his talk was the first time he’s been able to reconstruct something positive.

I’m not mad, just confused and a little surprised as to why you wouldn’t at least send me an email brother.  I would have love to do a point, counterpoint or something that would have been dare I say, constructive.

And perhaps directly unrelated to your blog post, but perhaps also relevant, least as i relate to it, is the sticking feeling that beyond the semantics,  at the end of the day is:: just HOW DO WE HOLD OUR BELIEFS?? The recurring theme in Pete Rollins’ parables and writings of how those “bound-to-me” beliefs may be used as a recurring crutch to continue as i am, staying untransformed and not ever challenging my idioms, perception and perspective. Anotherwords,  NUTHIN to “blow my hair back” and make me rethink my existence or unique & personal perception of “my” reality as life rushes me by..

Have you ever imagined a diffrent reality? One in which a god’s presence is NON_ambiguous but felt and known?
Would such a god be a god of fear, dread, loathing and terror? To RULE by FORCE of belief!? and JUDGE accordingly!?

Ted Chiang published such an alternate reality perspective in 2001, would you care to have a look? 
It is entitled: Hell is the absence of god:
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/70896/

Does this differ all that much from most “accepted belief based ideologies” that are IN_USE today!? and then how those beliefs govern the public-private behaviour of their adherents..?

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The above can also be listened to instead of read, here is a link for it as an audio MP3:
http://media.rawvoice.com/podcastle/media.libsyn.com/media/podcastle/PC040_HellIsTheAbsenceOfGod.mp3

Some links of interest may be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang