Peter Enns describes the ways that seminaries hide ideas, information, and arguments that might disturb their students’ faiths:
How I Deconverted: I Made A Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith
June 20, 2012 By 24 Comments
December 1997-May 1999 On December 8, 1997, my two closest philosophy major friends and I found ourselves utterly dismantling our Christian beliefs. As we went over all the possible reasons to doubt the faith, we found we simply did not have it in us to spin things favorably that night. We saw immense problems with rationally [...]
On Atheist Blogger Leah Libresco's Conversion to Catholicism and Her Atheistic Detractors
June 19, 2012 By 188 Comments
Yesterday, the atheist blogosphere and social networking sites were abuzz about the conversion of an atheist blogger, named Leah Libresco, to Roman Catholicism. I would like to address two topics. One is the substance of the arguments she made (or alluded to) in her post and in its comments section. I want to address the [...]
How I Deconverted, I Became A Christian Relativist
June 18, 2012 By 9 Comments
January 1997-December 1997: The first semester of my sophomore year I took predominantly theology and philosophy classes. Simultaneously I was taking both Church History I (covering church history from the time of the early church through the middle ages and stopping just before the Reformation) and a philosophy course on Augustine and Aquinas. I was [...]
Defending The Catholic Faith, But Not The Pope. A Conversation With Mary The Catholic Graduate Student
June 14, 2012 By 8 Comments
Mary is a Catholic friend of mine. She was recently a graduate student in theology at a prestigious Catholic school. Previously we debated the Church’s attempt to have its schools and charities be exempted from laws requiring that they provide health plans that cover contraception. That was a vigorous three part debate: “Should Catholic Employers [...]
Living With The Westboro Baptist Church
June 12, 2012 By 6 Comments
Rebecca Fox-Barrett did six years of ethnographical research about the Westboro Baptist Church, which included spending a lot of time with the church. You can read the resultant doctoral dissertation that she wrote on the church here. She recently gave a very interesting interview to Sojourners. Here are just a few interesting bits to highlight [...]
The Spiritual Abuse Survivor's Network
June 7, 2012 By 2 Comments
Vyckie Garrison, Libby Anne, Bruce Gerencser, Sierra, and Melissa are all bloggers whose work exposing the evils of Christian patriarchy I have been enthusiastic about over the past year. Libby Anne has even become a personal friend and happily Bruce has started commenting here on occasion. They are now organized with others into what Vyckie has [...]
"So You Say Christ's Love Is Unconditional and Non-Judgmental? Are You GAY?"
June 6, 2012 By 7 Comments
Jonathan Zeng was offered a job to teach music at a nondenominational Christian academy. But just hours later, he lost the job after one of his interviewers had found something fishy about the portion of his application in which he described his religious views. Zeng explains what set off the alarm bells:
A Sermon on Gay Marriage
May 26, 2012 By 3 Comments
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