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August 23, 2019
Episode 13: What Lot’s Wife Tells Us About the Bible
Years ago Robert Fulghum wrote a best-selling book entitled All I Really Need to Know I...
August 20, 2019
Episode 12: None of This Really Happened
When I first started writing and speaking to groups about my departure from the faith,...
August 09, 2019
It’s Not Just a Phase, Mom!
Anyone with the nerve to "come out" as an atheist to religious friends and family...
July 2019
July 28, 2019
Help Me Do What I Do
The school year is fast approaching, and for my day job I teach high school...
July 26, 2019
Episode 11: The Absurdity of a Perfect Bible
Even on its own terms, an inerrant Bible is an absurdity. I'll explain what I...
July 24, 2019
Twenty One Pilots and the Evolution of Evangelism
Last week, an excellent Q&A post about evangelism got widely passed around which came from,...
July 21, 2019
Episode 10: Why Smart People Believe Nonsense
Over dinner one night, I found myself explaining to someone raised outside of a devoutly...
July 19, 2019
Episode 9: How Faith Breaks Your Feeler
In my last post, I enumerated about a dozen ways faith normalizes bad thinking, teaching...
July 17, 2019
Episode 8: How Faith Breaks Your Thinker
Someone wrote me recently to ask: What drives you to be so adamant in sharing...
July 14, 2019
Episode 7: How Christianity Teaches You to Hate Yourself
One of the great joys of living in the Bible Belt is that you can...
July 10, 2019
Saints and Sinners: An Arbitrary Distinction
Last week in a Chicago suburb, a Baptist pastor's wife was charged with sexual assault of...
July 08, 2019
Looking for a Kids’ Camp in Florida or South Carolina?
If you have followed Godless in Dixie for long, you know I've been a big...
July 08, 2019
Episode 6: What I Lost When I Lost My Faith
I've written before about how I can identify with Buzz Lightyear in the movie Toy...
July 02, 2019
Episode 5: What I Gained When I Lost My Religion
People often ask me if my life is better now that I've left my religion. My...
June 2019
June 29, 2019
Episode 4: Leaving My Religion Was Nothing Like Entering It
People love to say that atheism is a religion. I can't tell you how many...
June 25, 2019
Episode 3: We Did As We Were Told
Those of us who broke up with Jesus (he wouldn't return our calls) are accustomed to having...
June 22, 2019
Episode 2: The Two Main Reasons I Left My Faith
In the last installment, I gave my reasons why I broke up with Jesus. I...
June 20, 2019
Episode 1: Why I Broke Up with Jesus
About nine years ago, I broke up with Jesus. People often ask me why. There...
June 17, 2019
How Evangelicals Handle Doubt
I visited another local church yesterday, and as usual it left me with some...thoughts. Friends...
May 2019
May 26, 2019
Why Faith Isn’t a Virtue
As a left-leaning atheist living in the most religious state in America, I stay keenly aware...
May 05, 2019
Was Jesus a Real Person?
Without googling it, would you know what a CVDP is? Would you immediately know what the...
April 2019
April 17, 2019
Dear Christian Friend
Dear Christian Friend, I want to ask you a question, but first I have to...
April 17, 2019
Help Me Do What I Do
During the school year, for my day job I teach high school Algebra. Then I...
April 13, 2019
A Religion Obsessed with Blood
It's amazing how different your upbringing can look to you after you get some distance...
March 2019
March 30, 2019
Award-Winning Physicist: Science Doesn’t Support Atheism
Last week, Scientific American published an interview with Marcelo Gleiser, a theoretical physics professor at...
March 29, 2019
Faith and the Power of a Magic Feather
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." --Philippians 4:13 Growing up evangelical,...
March 19, 2019
Listening to the Still, Small Voice
In my youth group days, we had a skit we would perform in which someone...
March 12, 2019
Captain Marvel and the Evangelical Male Ego
I remember once venerating "the gospel" as a sacred message with which you weren't supposed...
March 05, 2019
Why I Chose the Atheist Label
Back in 2014 when I finally came to grips with the fact that I was...
March 04, 2019
Projects in the Works
I've got about a dozen blog posts in the queue waiting to see the light...
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