Deconstructing my faith is what saved it, we shouldn’t be afraid to start from scratch

Kat Wordsworth shares how 'deconstructing' her faith allowed it to grow and we shouldn't be afraid of doubt.

Perhaps for you, the word deconstruction evokes the image of a dessert plate, biscuit crumbs artfully sprinkled in one corner, cheesy foam in another. Someone in the background is trying to convince you that this is a cheesecake, but you aren’t sure. The same suspicion – of not being sure what you are going to get, or why people have bothered messing around with something that was fine as it was – might carry across to the word when it is used in the context of faith.

"Faith deconstruction" wasn’t something I’d heard of until I joined Instagram. As I run an account that talks about doubt, the all-knowing algorithm sensed potential common ground and got to work suggesting endless deconstruction pages to me. But to start with, I didn’t understand what the term meant.