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August 18, 2018
Breaking the Cycle: Seek Harder or Let Go of God?
Before I get into my deconversion story, let me introduce myself: my name is Joe...
May 2017
May 31, 2017
More Support, More Community: Announcing Our New Helpline
The Hotline at RfR exists to put hands and feet, or in this case, eyes...
May 21, 2017
Thoughts for Doubting Believers
Maybe your doubts have piled up slowly, like dust on the furniture until one day...
May 14, 2017
Honey, I’m an Atheist: Losing My Faith and Telling My Wife About It
And there it was. With just a few sentences, I had changed forever who my...
May 07, 2017
The Too-Small God
Compared to the vastness of space and time, the Bible God is a trivial thing....
April 2017
April 30, 2017
Searching for Answers: My Deconversion, Part 2
So what was I left with? Innocent people experienced pain and suffering, prayer seemed to...
April 23, 2017
Questioning the Nature of God: My Deconversion, Part 1
I know that most of the people in the churches I grew up in would...
April 16, 2017
Disillusioned: From Church Leader to Unbeliever
The more I got involved in leadership, the more frustrated I became with the “ungodlike”...
April 09, 2017
Everyone Can Benefit from Self-Care
Self-care does not have to be a chore. It does not have to take a...
April 02, 2017
Self-Led, Fulfilling, Free: My Life as an Atheist
From that moment on, it finally made sense to me. This was the god that...
March 2017
March 26, 2017
The Burden of Religious Guilt
It’s no wonder that I and many of my peers struggle with self-doubt and anxiety....
March 19, 2017
Latino Out Of Water: From Superstitious to Atheist
I realized that there weren’t very many open Latino atheists that I was aware of....
March 12, 2017
Excuse Me, Lord: Religious Coercion in Foster Care
Lack of respect, autonomy, privacy, and decency, along with the constant threat of hell, of...
March 12, 2017
A Child Shall Lead Them: My Journey Out
I set about finding answers for my children, and for myself. A point of irony...
March 12, 2017
Reflections of a Humanist Chaplain
My goal as a chaplain is to broaden the circle of inclusion, so that every...
October 2015
October 16, 2015
You are an Atheist too (VIDEO)
The word "Atheist" has a bad connotation. But many people do not realize that they...
October 15, 2015
If This is Your Best Argument, You Have Nothing to Offer Me
As a naturally argumentative person (and former educator who taught persuasion), I am very interested in the...
October 13, 2015
This Sword Has Two Edges
One of the things I enjoy about where I am in life is that I...
October 11, 2015
We Are All Recovering on Different Paths and Points
In case you're new here, this blog is the product of volunteers and employees of Recovering from...
October 02, 2015
In Defense of Bad Expressions: A Banned Books Week Meditation
For five years, I taught high school English in a small rural district in Illinois....
September 2015
September 30, 2015
We Didn’t Expect Some Kind of Spiritual Bliss
Cassidy's last post is a great demonstration of one of the quite common experiences of the ex-religious:...
September 29, 2015
The Bait and Switch of the “Bad Christians” Accusation.
It's hard to generalize much about Christianity, which is only to be expected for a...
September 28, 2015
Trust the Terrain: Why Reality Trumps Revelation
When the map and the terrain differ, trust the terrain. - Swiss army proverb If...
September 24, 2015
On the Dishonest Resolution of Doubt.
When Christians begin to seriously doubt, the reactions of the people around them are predictable....
September 23, 2015
The Algebra of Post-Deconversion Relationships
One of the inexplicable side effects - or maybe not, I don't know - of doing...
September 21, 2015
Opposing Religion Isn’t Always the Greatest Good
A few years ago, my colleague Hemant Mehta wrote a post over at Friendly Atheist entitled...
September 20, 2015
On the Dishonest Engagement of Doubt.
Doubt is nothing more than the dawning suspicion that something is wrong with a person's...
September 15, 2015
Doubt Is Not a Spiritual Health Problem
This is a part of an ongoing series following a campaign going on in central Illinois called...
September 14, 2015
Exchanging the Legend: On Reinterpreting Our Religious Pasts
This one time, I thought I felt the Holy Spirit moving in me. When I...
September 11, 2015
Plato’s Cave and the Modern Science [Video]
In this video, I will tell the allegory of Plato's Cave and make references in...
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