NAME IT FIRST

Extension

For Evangelical Americans

When the Church Was Your Whole World

You were handed a framework before you could evaluate it. Now you can.

This is for:

For the person raised Evangelical who is examining what the church shaped in them -- their moral vocabulary, their relationships, their sense of self -- and deciding what is genuinely theirs to keep.

You'll produce:your Your Evangelical Identity Charter

The Name It First Experience

The church shaped more than Sunday mornings. It shaped your vocabulary, your relationships, your sense of who you are supposed to be. Your Evangelical Identity Charter does not ask you to leave or stay. It asks you to look clearly at what that community gave you and what it required. You leave with a signed document naming the faith that is yours.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What did your faith community give you — and what did it cost you?
  2. What values from your Evangelical upbringing do you still hold — and which ones are you still working out?
  3. What does it mean to you to have been shaped by a faith community, regardless of where you are with it now?

Research basis

Fowler on stages of faith development / Streib on deconversion and faith transition / Pew Research Center on religious switching among Evangelicals / Worthington on psychology of religious commitment and doubt

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

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Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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