# Tim Whitaker **Summary.** Tim Whitaker is the founder of The New Evangelicals, a media community for post- and deconstructing evangelicals. He speaks and writes on faith deconstruction, church hurt, and the politics of American evangelicalism. ## Who he is - Founder of **The New Evangelicals (TNE)**, which he built into a community with a large social-media following and a nonprofit structure. - Describes his own path as leaving the evangelical church community after speaking out, an experience that shaped the project. - Hosts TNE's podcast and public conversations, and appears in interviews on deconstruction and inclusive Christianity. - Frames deconstruction as something that can lead people back to faith rather than only away from it. ## Why it matters in this wiki Whitaker is one of the public organizers of the deconstruction conversation. His work is a useful reference point when this wiki tracks post-evangelical movements and their critique of Christian nationalism. See [[The New Evangelicals]]. ## Related - [[The New Evangelicals]]