About Trust Again

Trust Again is currently being developed in partnership with churches exploring pilot implementations of the Trust Again Course.

Our Mission

Help people explore whether trust can be rebuilt—and whether the authority revealed in Jesus might be worthy of that trust.

How the Framework Emerged

Trust Again grew out of years of conversations with people wrestling with questions about faith. Again and again, a pattern began to appear. Many struggles with Christianity were not primarily intellectual. They were relational and experiential. Before conversations even reached questions of evidence or belief—areas where traditional apologetics often focuses—many people were already conflicted about authority and freedom.

Over time it became clear that what often appears to be skepticism can actually be something else: protection. When trust repeatedly proves unsafe, autonomy can slowly shift from being a way of living freely into a way of protecting oneself. That observation eventually became the foundation of the Defensive Autonomy framework, which seeks to name an experience many people feel but struggle to describe.

Founder

Trust Again was founded by Sergio Bonadona, author of When Authority No Longer Feels Safe.

Sergio has long been interested in apologetics and in helping people thoughtfully consider the claims of the Christian faith.

Through years of conversations with skeptics, seekers, and Christians wrestling with doubt, he began noticing that many barriers to faith were not primarily intellectual. They were connected to trust.

Those conversations eventually led to the development of the Defensive Autonomy framework and to the creation of Trust Again as a ministry focused on exploring those questions with honesty and care.

The Book Behind the Framework

The ideas behind Trust Again were first explored in Sergio Bonadona’s book When Authority No Longer Feels Safe.

The book introduces the Defensive Autonomy framework and examines the cultural conditions that make trust difficult today.

The Trust Again Course expands on these ideas in a conversational setting designed for churches and small groups.

Our Posture

Because the questions explored in Trust Again often involve personal experiences with authority, the posture of the ministry matters. Trust Again is committed to approaching these conversations with honesty and care. That includes acknowledging the ways authority can fail and speaking about those realities without defensiveness.

Many participants bring difficult stories with them. Those experiences deserve to be heard and taken seriously. For that reason, Trust Again seeks to create environments where real questions can be explored openly and thoughtfully. At its heart, the ministry is guided by a commitment to truth, freedom, and human dignity—and by the conviction that trust can never be forced.