Donnell McLachlan, 29, who lives in Chicago, has been sharing the story of his deconstruction on TikTok @donnellwrites, where he has nearly 250,000 followers, since 2021.
He was brought up in what he describes as a small Black church on the South Side of Chicago in the Pentecostal and Apostolic traditions.
“I started to notice the distance between what we professed and what we actually did,” he told me, especially when it came to women, the L.G.B.T.Q.
community and Black Lives Matter.
And just like language, there are many interpretations and ways to express it.
Persons:
Donnell McLachlan, “, ”, McLachlan, ” McLachlan, ” Jill Fioravanti, Fioravanti “, Hillel
Organizations:
Southern Baptist Convention, Conservative Jewish
Locations:
—, Chicago, Maryland