The Breaking Church Project (BCP) is a movement that recognizes that the only way Christ's church survives is by breaking itself down and starting over. What we've built is not the church of Christ; what we've built is the Church of Church. It has to go. Burn it all down. It's time.

The BCP Blog

Thesis 22: Come as You Are (But Not In Those Rags)

Creating barriers to keep others from approaching Christ is antithesis to everything we should be doing, saying, and standing for.

EB Rowan

Feb 54 min read

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Thesis 7: Everything Is Story

In short, we are wired to believe that there’s more to life than eating, resting, and fucking.

EB Rowan

May 7, 20244 min read

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Deconstructing Church

Deconstructing Church A few months ago, I attended our church’s monthly “men’s breakfast,” which is billed as a chance for the menfolk of...

EB Rowan

Apr 15, 20244 min read

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Thesis 6: (Your) Christ Doesn't Exist

(Or, uncomfortable truths about Jesus you probably won’t hear from the pulpit.) Jesus is not your personal Lord and Saviour. This...

EB Rowan

Apr 11, 20244 min read

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Thesis 5: Empty Temples

So you decide to start yourself a nice church. First, of course, you need a name, something that delivers a message that you’re not like...

EB Rowan

Apr 6, 20243 min read

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Thesis 4: Church is not a Safe Space

Fact: they’ve always known, and they will always deny. I can’t precisely remember when I first learned about the rampant sexual abuses of...

EB Rowan

Mar 24, 20243 min read

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Thesis 3: The Bible Ain't a Science Book

So, as it turns out, that Twitter/X image attributed to a certain psychotic republican with the initials MTG, is fake. A few weeks ago,...

EB Rowan

Mar 13, 20244 min read

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Thesis 2: the Bible Isn't a History Textbook

They brought someone to my small Christian high school to defend what I’d come to know as Literalism. Balding, weaselly-looking man (of...

EB Rowan

Mar 2, 20243 min read

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Thesis 1: Church Ain't Church

Simply put, the church we attend on Sundays isn’t what Christ intended for us. The Church we know is a human performance centred on the...

EB Rowan

Feb 19, 20243 min read

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The 95 Theses of Breaking Church

Slightly more than 500 years ago, a theologian named Martin Luther hammered a list of 95 theses, or things that bugged him about the...

EB Rowan

Feb 13, 20242 min read

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la cosa nostra

Welcome to Breaking Church. I’m EB Rowan, the founder of the Breaking Church Project (BCP). I’m going to begin by summarizing the whole...

EB Rowan

Feb 11, 20243 min read

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my broken church

I've been uncomfortable with Church for a long, long time, but it's only recently I've begun to see precisely why. Now, I need to say...

EB Rowan

Feb 7, 20243 min read

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