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October 17, 2019
Why I No Longer Accept Conditional Love
By Sharon Sanders, RfR volunteer — People who care only partially are dangerous, and for...
October 10, 2019
Red Lips and Alien Teeth
By W. Scott Parker III, RfR Volunteer — Carnival’s coming to town! In a small...
October 03, 2019
My Pastor Made Me an Atheist
By James Fielding — Alright, so maybe I am exaggerating slightly. I can’t completely give...
September 2019
September 26, 2019
Twirling, Twirling, Twirling Towards Freedom
By Tina — I'm 60 years old, and am embarrassed to say I've "deconverted" and "reconverted"...
September 19, 2019
Religion Holds the Mind Ransom to Irrational Beliefs
By Julio Chang — What causes great minds to be held ransom by irrational beliefs? ...
September 05, 2019
I Told God I Didn’t Believe and He Spoke to Me
By Gordon Ward With tears streaming down my face, I walked to the front to...
August 2019
August 03, 2019
Dear Sister: I am an Atheist
By Ted Tucker Dear Sister, I may not have been clear in my last email...
June 2019
June 21, 2019
What I Believe Now: 8 Agnostic Perspectives
In the course of writing about my deconversion and the problems in religion, I've often...
May 2019
May 13, 2019
Whose Pain is it? The Fallacy of Owning Others’ Pain
by Darrel Ray, Ed.D, President, RfR Board As I read religious recovery comments from time...
April 2019
April 20, 2019
The Sky without God: Ditching the Baggage of Belief
My belief in God, and my introduction to religion, began when I was four or...
April 03, 2019
My Pilgrimage to Mecca made me an Agnostic Ex-Muslim
I am a 27 year old Pakistani woman. Just over two years ago I was...
March 2019
March 06, 2019
If I Can Break Free From a Cult After More Than 40 Years — So Can You
On a cold January day in 1973 I was born into a mind controlling doomsday...
February 2019
February 20, 2019
The Garden of Eden Story isn’t about the Fall of Humankind
One of the most important epiphanies I had about the Bible had to do with...
February 11, 2019
I’m Now Suspicious of…
Reposted with permission from The Journey of Doubt I’m now suspicious of any ideology with...
January 2019
January 29, 2019
Recovering from Religion Fall Excursion: Embrace Your Nature
Recovering from Religion celebrates 10th year with first-of-its-kind weekend getaway Mars Hill, North Carolina, January...
January 12, 2019
Eternal Bliss, Endless Torture: What the Hell?
I was born with a deformed heart valve. My parents brought me in for an...
December 2018
December 16, 2018
6 Ways to Provide Better Care for Suicidal Non-Religious People
By Gayle Jordan, executive director of Recovering from Religion The National Suicide Hotline recently...
December 07, 2018
In Your Eyes
By Susi Bocks In your eyes god exists so I was told my mama said...
November 2018
November 15, 2018
If the Scriptures are True (part 1): Morality without God
A practical test of an abstract idea People have long debated the philosophical feasibility of...
October 2018
October 24, 2018
Why I’m No Longer A Christian
By guest author Suze Ambs. The reasons why I have left my old religion are...
October 18, 2018
From Mormon to Agnostic: Becoming “Human Again”
By an anonymous author I’m a big Disney music fan. In the Broadway version of...
October 11, 2018
A Memoir of a Lifelong Atheist
By guest author Richard "Lifelong" might be a slight exaggeration: I abandoned Christianity when I...
October 02, 2018
Tabula Rasa, or My Blank Pages
By guest author V. Montgomery Thorp I was like a pilgrim wandering in the wilderness....
September 2018
September 24, 2018
My Escape from the Belly of the Beast
By guest author Don R I grew up in the church. Well, actually, the first 5...
September 20, 2018
I Tried to Believe in God — My Mind Wouldn’t Let Me
By guest author Kit Summers I used to be a world-class juggler. Then I was...
September 12, 2018
Paths to Healing: Why Fundamentalism is so Dangerous
By Joe Omundson Everyone experiences dysfunction to some degree – insecurity, weakness, and trauma, which...
September 11, 2018
My Path to Atheism Could Be Yours Too
By guest author Dennis Lurvey The Invention of "Spirit" I don't know what "spiritual growth"...
September 09, 2018
Researching Secular Sex: How Faith and Sexuality interact
How do our religious beliefs – or lack thereof – influence our sexuality? Dr. Darrel...
September 06, 2018
The Sinner’s Prayer for Salvation is a Bait and Switch
Mainstream Christian pastors want to make it as easy as possible for guests in their...
September 01, 2018
My Obsession with Death and How it Made Me Jewish… Really
Anonymous submission For as long as I can remember I’ve had this paralyzing fear...
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