the Empathy List #109: Trey Ferguson Can't Reconvert Anybody

Pastor Trey Ferguson on how to stay humble on Twitter, loving your deconverted friends, and the "outsider" theologians you must read.

Hello friend, Liz here.

I’m coming to you today with a conversation between myself and pastor,

Trey Ferguson

, a “Bapticostal” who first trained in a white conservative evangelical seminary that shall not be named… before dropping out during his last semester. He felt he had to check so much of himself “at the door,” including his desire to make space for questions, empathy and nuance.

As you can imagine, his decision to leave seminary so close to graduation was inconvenient and baffling to some in his life; however, it paid off. After years learning from male European theologians, he instead reenrolled in one of the U.S.’s historically black seminaries. This offered him a much wider ranging theological education, stretching beyond the borders of normative “white male theology” and into the territory of “the other theologians,” the ones speaking from the margins, to the margins.

Trey also interests me because he’s another person who exhibits both firmness and gentleness online (on Twitter/X specific…