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Crunchy to cultish: The deconstruction of 'Rose Uncharted'



Questioning authority has proven to be generally good in the age of modern politics and health care — but sometimes those who question take it a bridge too far.

One of them, a crunchy mom influencer known as “Rose Uncharted” on Instagram, recently deconstructed from Christianity and began sharing New Age ideas and beliefs to her 165,000 followers on the social media platform.

“This is not an attack on this individual person. I’m not trying to even focus on this one individual, but the content that she has publicly produced and published on her Instagram is a really good example of false teaching that Christians need to be really aware of, especially the demographic in my audience,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” explains.


“The Christian on the crunchy side mom that tends to question authority and question the government and push back against the arbitrary rules — all of those things are great,” she continues, noting that this can lead to being “attracted to certain forms of false teaching” and “perversions of Christianity.”

While these women believe it to be “thinking outside of the box,” Stuckey says that it’s “really just the work of the devil” and an “anti-Christ philosophy.”

“Rose Uncharted” became extremely popular during COVID for pushing back against many of the regulations that didn’t make sense and were clearly restricting our freedoms — like mask and vaccine mandates.

She’s also very vocal about taking a holistic, natural approach to medicine and birth, and she asks a lot of questions about typical Western medicine. Now, she’s begun to become vocal about deconstructing.

“Now, if you don’t know what deconstruction is, I would say it’s a very polite euphemism to describe the process that a Christian goes through when they no longer believe what the Bible teaches about a lot of things in general,” Stuckey says.

In her initial announcement that she was deconstructing, "Rose Uncharted" wrote, “Stepping out of religion feels like stepping out of a room that was never built for me in the first place. It was never about truth — it was about pledging allegiance to the Bible, not as something to seek and wrestle with, but as something already decided for you, imposed upon you, interpreted for you by men through the ages with a variety of intentions, good and bad.”

“I’ve come to believe Christianity is a corrupt and flawed man-made system designed to keep us afraid of ourselves, afraid of our own instincts, afraid of wanting more, afraid of our very own hearts,” she continued. “Now, the unknown is no longer a threat to me — it’s an invitation.”

“She’s saying that outside of religion she has been able to really find God, find God for herself,” Stuckey explains, noting that this February, the influencer made a Western versus Eastern comparison.

“I see this so much in progressive circles. The demonization of the Western lens and the Western mentality, as if Western civilization, because of Christianity, isn’t responsible for the concept of human rights,” she continues, adding, “I loathe that.”

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Ex-New Ager reveals cults’ secret invasion of the church



Melissa Dougherty was far into the New Age way of thinking before having her first child and having her deep-seated beliefs challenged — and ultimately debunked.

“Of all people, it was two Jehovah’s Witnesses that challenged me, and I’m researching them, and as I’m researching them I’m realizing, ‘Oh, what I believe is wrong, because if the Bible is true, then what they believe is wrong, but if the Bible is true, what I believe is wrong,’” she tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.”

“So it was kind of a rug that got pulled out from underneath me, but after I got out of it I’m like, 'Yeah, I’m an ex-New Ager,'” she continues.


While the New Age movement often gets confused with New Thought, they are not the same — but both are infiltrating Christianity. New Thought places more of an emphasis on a divine power as the source.

“One of the problems that I see, personally, with specifically New Thought teachings,” she tells Stuckey, are practices like “affirmations.”

“What a lot of people don’t realize is what affirmations are is New Thought prayers. They were created by the New Thought movements to speak affirmative prayer in the now, in order for you to basically manifest what it is.”

“You don’t ask, in other words, you say it as if you had it and then your feelings are very, very important. Feelings are everything in New Thought. That’s where your power is,” she explains.

When Dougherty discusses these beliefs with Christians, she’s realized that the more progressive Christians have ideas that often align with the New Thought movement.

“New Thought as a movement is interwoven throughout America, but it’s also something that is adopted within many churches by many Christians, and it gives you this alternative Jesus, it gives you this alternative gospel that sounds a lot like the progressive gospel,” she explains.

“These are two different movements to be sure, but the fact that I can find so many New Thought beliefs among progressives is very interesting,” she continues, noting that phrases like “your true authentic self” are interwoven into both lines of thinking.

“And so much of what you said, we can see specifically in a variety of ways in progressivism, but gender is the first one that comes to mind,” Stuckey comments.

“When you serve the God of self,” she continues, adding, “You have the power of speech to declare a new reality that everyone else must then submit to.”

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Paula White: Trump’s heretical new faith office adviser



President Donald Trump has named Paula White, prosperity gospel pastor, the head of his new White House faith office — and while Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” isn’t surprised, she is disappointed.

As far back as 2019, Stuckey has been critical of White, writing in a post on X, “Paula White is a horrifyingly false teacher who peddles the damning prosperity gospel. Mr Pres, hit me up if you’d like some better suggestions.”

“This is still true,” Stuckey says, recalling her old post. “I don’t expect for Trump to think the same things that we do about Paula White. I do think Paula White is a conservative. I think she’s been a big supporter of President Trump. I’m sure she has said things that are true.”

However, being a conservative, supporting Trump, and saying some things that are true don’t change who she is.


“She is a televangelist. She is what’s known as a prosperity gospel,” Stuckey says, explaining that prosperity gospel preachers are “people who make you believe that if you do something for God, then he will do something for you in return.”

“If you keep these precepts, then he will reward you with financial compensation, material wealth, and health. And there’s typically some kind of tie of the charismatic movement into this, the belief that basically you are entitled to, as a Christian, access to perfect health and to financial success,” she continues.

White has also been married three times, and it’s been reported that she had an affair with the pastor of the church she and her first husband attended. She ended up marrying that pastor, before divorcing him in 2007.

She then married musician Jonathan Cain of the band Journey.

“Which is pretty cool,” Stuckey admits, noting that in 2000, White was invited by prosperity preacher T.D. Jakes to preach at a conference.

Jakes himself has claimed that “prosperity is a mindset. Whatever you say to yourself is what will manifest.”

“That’s New Age nonsense. That’s not Christianity,” Stuckey says. “God already has a plan and a purpose for your life, but it is up to you to believe in his plans.”

Jakes has also claimed, “If you obey God, you will never be broke another day in your life.”

“Which of course is not necessarily true,” Stuckey says. “Just look at the lives of the apostles. If you think about all of the Christians that exist around the world, in Yemen, in China, in North Korea, they don’t have money. Are they just not believing in God for their financial wealth? Is that why they haven’t gotten a promotion at the slave factory where they’re working in those countries?”

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Christians: It's time to reclaim crystals and constellations from 'New Age' occultists



If you came to my house, you would see a myriad of crystals. They’re perched atop shelves, tucked into bookcases, and nestled among potted plants. I have tattoos of moons, suns, and stars on my arms.

I know what you’re thinking: You must be into New Age?

What begins as innocent curiosity, a desire for meaning and connection, or just a simple wow, that’s beautiful can set people on a path of consorting with the demonic.

Actually, no.

And I have a follow-up question: When did matters of geology and astronomy become emblems of the occult?

When did we agree that any part of God’s creation belonged to groups that, whether they know it or not, fraternize with the demonic?

I look around and wonder if any Christians are as nettled about this as I am. We already silently surrendered to the hijacking of the rainbow. Are we going to allow another group to lay claim to more aspects of nature that should point us back to God?

That’s not to say that we can stop New Agers, occultists, witches, or anyone for that matter from abusing God’s good creation — we can’t. If they want to infuse stones with dark magic and deduce faulty ideas from the skies, so be it.

But the Christian recoiling from anything involving crystals, astronomical bodies, or other elements of nature is a fundamentally flawed response.

A disclaimer

It’s unwise to purchase crystals or any trinket, no matter how innocuous it appears, from New Age shops and companies. There are telltale signs we should look for: tarot cards, books on modern witchcraft and spellwork, smudge sticks, incense, and anything claiming to “cleanse the energy” in the room.

Some of this merchandise is cursed intentionally. A pretty rock isn’t the only thing you’ll be bringing home with you.

New Age ideas found in books and games beckon the naive down paths of evil masked as “spiritual awakenings” and guides to connecting to the universe and other energy sources, all of which are demonic.

At bare minimum, purchasing products from New Age shops funds groups that practice and champion the dark arts. For the same reasons, Christians should avoid reading horoscopes or purchasing anything in that vein.

Why it matters

Isn’t it interesting that many of the things we associate with occultism and New Ageism, which is just a gateway drug to the occult, are not only part of nature but specifically the most ethereal parts of nature?

Ice tundras, scorching deserts, and mosquito-ridden swamplands do not embody the dark arts. But prismatic crystals, radiant celestial bodies, and deep, mysterious forests — things that are so striking they seem to exude the supernatural, because they do — these specifically we associate with witchcraft.

This is no accident.

Satan uses beauty — the very trait that defined him before his fall — to attract and ensnare. The most sublime elements of nature can be a kind of bait that draws people in. Anyone with an affinity for nature or metaphysics is especially at risk.

That’s why it’s common to see bohemians, naturalists, hippies, and the like gravitate toward the New Age. However, what begins as innocent curiosity, a desire for meaning and connection, or just a simple wow, that’s beautiful can set people on a path of consorting with the demonic. And before they know it, the jaws of dark magic are closing around them.

Further, nature isn’t just the game board on which the story of humanity plays out. Certainly there’s a practical side to oceans, mountains, and the moon, but these elements were also designed to reflect the nature of their Creator, who spoke them into existence, and elicit worship from the spectator.

When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them? —Psalm 8:3-4

These words from King David capture a divine purpose of the natural world. He gazes at the sky, bears witness to God’s creativity, His beauty, and His love for mankind, and he responds in worship.

Stealing wonder

But Satan hates the worship of God. It’s fitting that he would steal and pervert the elements of nature likely to stir up that feeling of awestruck wonder: If this exists, there must be a higher power out there. Which, of course, is the point. The complexity and beauty of nature shout the name of the One who created it.

Occultism does indeed leadto a higher power, but not the highest power. Not the power that heals, redeems, and saves but the power that confuses, corrupts, and destroys.

Under Satan’s sinister influence, glittering stones hidden among clay and rock become untapped sources of power instead of reminders of God’s creativity and whimsy. Constellations become pathways to phony insight and introspection instead of evidence of God’s artistry and brilliant design for navigation. The moon becomes an object of worship instead of a great stabilizer in God’s spoken cosmos. The deep woods become a gathering place for witches instead of singers of God’s glory (1 Chronicles 16:33, Psalm 96:12).

Shouldn’t Christians have something to say about this?

Everywhere I see warnings to stay away from New Age ideas and paraphernalia. And that’s good. People need to be educated about this pitfall.

However, I see nothing regarding the flip side of that pitfall — the erroneous belief that certain elements of nature now belong to the occult. They don’t. They were stolen and repurposed for evil, and I, for one, want them back.

Taking back beauty

On the darkest night when no moon can be seen, I know it’s still there in the exact same place it’s always been. I know that as it waxes and wanes, it’s not really changing its form. This is what I mean when I say that God infuses nature with elements of Himself.

Though from my fixed, finite perspective, He may appear to change with the coming and going of seasons, the moon reminds me that God is constant always — fully present, fully perfect, fully God.

And when I look at crystals — their erratic yet somehow ordered structure — I can’t help but think about how the same God who parted seas, sent a great fish to swallow Jonah, and designed both the songbird and the anglerfish is the same logical, pragmatic God who gave Moses the Ten Commandments and invented mathematics. Beautiful, strange, mysterious, and evocative are both crystals and their Creator.

I’m also reminded of the New Jerusalem promised in Revelation 21 — a redeemed and holy city of pure gold surrounded by a wall made of layered stones, some of which are crystals.

“The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst” (Revelation 21:19-20).

Crystals and precious stones are quite literally reminders of God’s promise to create a new heaven and earth where toil, sickness, pain, and sin are forever defeated, but now that the occult has invented “crystal healing,” they’re off-limits to the very people who will inherit God’s redeemed Jerusalem? Now that moon rituals and dating parameters based on your “sign” exist, suddenly it’s taboo for Christians to marvel at certain elements of God’s creation?

I reject that.

I’m embracing my affinity for crystals, moons, and stars even if it means giving the “wrong impression.”

Ask me if I use my crystals for healing, and I’ll say, No, but let me tell you what will heal you. Ask me about my identity as a Libra, and I’ll tell you to Whom my identity is attached. Ask me about the sun and moon tattooed on my left arm, and I’ll point you to the Psalms.

I think it’s high time we stop retreating every time a new group sticks its flag in our territory.

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