I Was a Pastor. My Christian Friends Went MAGA and Canceled Me for Following Jesus

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Apr 11, 2025 · 4m

People often say God moves in mysterious ways.

I won't argue with them.

I was a local church pastor for more than two decades. During the 2016 presidential campaign, as I started to ask more questions and as I became more outspoken against the approaching marriage of Church and State I was witnessing, I experienced a massive personal exodus.

I lost hundreds, perhaps thousands of former church friends and co-ministers who disconnected or actively ridiculed me for "falling away from the faith."

A former pastor publicly disparaged me for losing my way. Longtime Christian friends ghosted me…