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August 2018

August 18, 2018
Before I get into my deconversion story, let me introduce myself: my name is Joe...

May 2017

May 31, 2017
The Hotline at RfR exists to put hands and feet, or in this case, eyes...
May 21, 2017
Maybe your doubts have piled up slowly, like dust on the furniture until one day...
May 14, 2017
And there it was. With just a few sentences, I had changed forever who my...
May 07, 2017
Compared to the vastness of space and time, the Bible God is a trivial thing....

April 2017

April 30, 2017
So what was I left with? Innocent people experienced pain and suffering, prayer seemed to...
April 23, 2017
I know that most of the people in the churches I grew up in would...
April 16, 2017
The more I got involved in leadership, the more frustrated I became with the “ungodlike”...
April 09, 2017
Self-care does not have to be a chore. It does not have to take a...
April 02, 2017
From that moment on, it finally made sense to me. This was the god that...

March 2017

March 26, 2017
It’s no wonder that I and many of my peers struggle with self-doubt and anxiety....
March 19, 2017
I realized that there weren’t very many open Latino atheists that I was aware of....
March 12, 2017
Lack of respect, autonomy, privacy, and decency, along with the constant threat of hell, of...
March 12, 2017
I set about finding answers for my children, and for myself. A point of irony...
March 12, 2017
My goal as a chaplain is to broaden the circle of inclusion, so that every...

October 2015

October 16, 2015
The word "Atheist" has a bad connotation. But many people do not realize that they...
October 15, 2015
As a naturally argumentative person (and former educator who taught persuasion), I am very interested in the...
October 13, 2015
One of the things I enjoy about where I am in life is that I...
October 11, 2015
In case you're new here, this blog is the product of volunteers and employees of Recovering from...
October 02, 2015
For five years, I taught high school English in a small rural district in Illinois....

September 2015

September 30, 2015
Cassidy's last post is a great demonstration of one of the quite common experiences of the ex-religious:...
September 29, 2015
It's hard to generalize much about Christianity, which is only to be expected for a...
September 28, 2015
When the map and the terrain differ, trust the terrain. - Swiss army proverb If...
September 24, 2015
When Christians begin to seriously doubt, the reactions of the people around them are predictable....
September 23, 2015
One of the inexplicable side effects - or maybe not, I don't know - of doing...
September 21, 2015
A few years ago, my colleague Hemant Mehta wrote a post over at Friendly Atheist entitled...
September 20, 2015
Doubt is nothing more than the dawning suspicion that something is wrong with a person's...
September 15, 2015
This is a part of an ongoing series following a campaign going on in central Illinois called...
September 14, 2015
This one time, I thought I felt the Holy Spirit moving in me. When I...
September 11, 2015
In this video, I will tell the allegory of Plato's Cave and make references in...
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