The UnPentecostals
UnPentecostals.com is a safe haven for those breaking free from the grip of high-control religion, especially the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI). We exist to name the harm, heal the wounds, and reclaim our minds, identities, and stories. This space is built by and for exvangelicals, heretics, misfits, neurospicy folks, queer folks, and anyone who’s ever been told their questions were rebellion. Here, we honor your anger. We validate your grief. We celebrate your freedom. We don’t preach. We don’t gaslight. We don’t offer “just trust God” band-aids. We believe in critical thinking, community care, and the radical idea that you are allowed to exist fully, boldly, and without shame. Welcome to the UnPentecostals. Take off the mask. You’re home.
Our Story
We didn’t plan to start a movement. We were just a few ex-Pentecostals; tired, confused, angry, grieving… trying to untangle the mess that high-control religion left in our minds, bodies, and relationships.
Many of us came out of the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI); a system that wrapped control in holiness, fear in faith, and spiritual abuse in “love.” We were told that our thoughts were rebellion, our bodies were shameful, and our doubts were dangerous.
We believed them… until we didn’t.
The cracks started small: a scripture that didn’t add up. A “miracle” that was really manipulation. A moment when our intuition screamed this isn’t right. For some of us, it took years. For others, it came like a lightning bolt.
But the leaving? That was the lonely part.
Leaving the church often meant losing everything: family, friends, community, identity, even housing or jobs. There was no soft landing. No guidebook. Just the echo of “backslider” and the weight of silence.
So we built our own table.
UnPentecostals began as a place to breathe again. A place to say “that was abuse” without flinching. A place where queer folks, neurodivergent folks, poly folks, and everyone who never fit their mold could finally belong, no repentance required.
We are not here to save anyone.
We are here to hold space, to ask better questions, and to heal loudly.
We are survivors, skeptics, freedom-seekers, and story-sharers.
This isn’t a church. This is a community; messy, honest, and real.
If you’ve left, are leaving, or are just starting to wonder… you’re not alone anymore.
Welcome home.
🌱 Our Values
We don't do dogma here. But we do have values. The kind that make space for healing, growth, and raising hell when needed.
🧠 Critical Thinking
We question everything. Especially the things we were told never to question. Faith that fears scrutiny isn’t faith; it’s control. We believe in evidence, curiosity, and unlearning with intention.
🪷 Trauma Awareness
We name abuse, spiritual bypassing, and coercive control for what they are. We honor your nervous system, your pace, and your story. Healing isn’t linear, and you never have to perform it here.
🏳️🌈 Radical Inclusion
Queer, trans, polyam, neurodivergent, disabled, sex-positive, atheist, spiritual-but-not-religious; all identities are welcome. You don’t have to shrink, sanitize, or “tone it down” to belong.
🤝 Community Care
We look out for each other. We believe in consent, clear boundaries, and conflict resolution that doesn't replicate abuse. We’re not a cult, and we don’t act like one.
🔥 Liberation over Loyalty
We don’t protect institutions. We protect people. We prioritize freedom, autonomy, and the right to leave… no matter how uncomfortable that makes the power structures feel.
🫶 Honesty
We choose real over performative. Compassion doesn’t mean silence. Kindness doesn’t mean people-pleasing. And we’d rather be raw than respectable.
