There’s a crisis happening among white people leaving Christianity—especially those coming out of evangelicalism. Many have deconstructed their faith, abandoned church, and sought new spiritual frameworks. But if they never excavated white supremacy, they find themselves in the lurch, spiritually unmoored, looking for something solid to hold onto.
That’s where the R.E.S.T. Mixtape comes in.
The R.E.S.T. Mixtape isn’t just about deconstructing Christianity—it’s about building new wineskins that can hold a spirituality capable of resisting empire, resisting supremacy, and fostering true liberation. And what most white people leaving Christianity don’t realize is that they don’t actually want boundlessness—they want scaffolding. They want a container, a framework, a structure to hold what they believe. The problem is, most of the spiritual scaffolding available to them still operates within a framework of whiteness, which means it lacks the depth, endurance, and resistance needed to truly confront what’s happening.
A Leadership Crisis
The leadership crisis among white exvangelicals is this: you cannot lead people through a crisis that you have not worked through yourself. And the crisis we are facing today—the one that is really at the heart of so many spiritual and existential breakdowns—is white supremacy itself.
It takes years, years, years, years to do that work.
If you haven’t done it, if you haven’t examined how whiteness has shaped your imagination, if you haven’t done the painstaking work of dismantling internalized supremacy, how can you possibly lead right now? How can you be a safe guide for people who don’t even realize that white supremacy is the very thing ailing them?
Because that’s the truth: most white people leaving Christianity don’t realize that their spiritual crisis isn’t just about losing faith—it’s about the collapse of a worldview that was built to protect whiteness.
• They were told their theology was objective truth—they’re now realizing it was a culturally conditioned framework that reinforced white dominance.
• They were told their churches were spiritually neutral—they’re now realizing they were incubators for racialized control.
• They were told they were spiritually sick because of sin—they’re now realizing they were spiritually sick because of supremacy, because of hierarchy, because of a system designed to distort humanity, not liberate it.
The Hunger for Something Real
White ex-evangelicals and post-Christians want something real. They are looking for wisdom, for frameworks, for something that can hold them in the void. But too many are still looking to leaders who have done theological deconstruction but not racial excavation. And that’s a problem.
You can’t build a liberated spirituality on a foundation of supremacy.
You can’t replace Christian dogma with another form of white spiritual dominance and expect it to sustain you.
You can’t trust a leader who has never had to wrestle with the deep, existential grief that comes from realizing their entire worldview was designed to uphold whiteness.
The work is not just theological—it is racial, social, and systemic.
The crisis is not just about God—it is about power.
R.E.S.T. Mixtape: A Framework for the Future
The R.E.S.T. Mixtape exists because spirituality needs new wineskins. It is not about swapping one set of beliefs for another—it is about building a framework that can hold the weight of liberation.
• Radical Truth-Telling – Naming what is real, including the ways whiteness has shaped our spiritual formation.
• Ethical Relationality – Learning to live in ways that honor history, culture, and mutual responsibility.
• Spiritual Grounding – Finding a sacred connection that is not built on control, supremacy, or hierarchy.
• Tethered Wisdom – Rooting in traditions that predate empire and have the resilience to outlast it.
White exvangelicals and post-Christians don’t need another vague, feel-good spirituality that ignores power. They don’t need another white-led movement that swaps Jesus for tarot but keeps the same colonial framework. They need leadership that has done the work.
And if you haven’t done that work—if you haven’t spent years undoing whiteness in your own body, mind, and spirit—then you are not ready to lead.
Period.
What we are confronting right now is white supremacy. And if you have not faced it in yourself, how can you guide others through a crisis they don’t yet have language for?
The cost of whiteness is a crisis of meaning. If we are going to build something new, it has to be built on truth, justice, and a spirituality that can hold the weight of the world as it is—not as whiteness has imagined it to be.