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

The Hotline at RfR exists to put hands and feet, or in this case, eyes...

Maybe your doubts have piled up slowly, like dust on the furniture until one day...

And there it was. With just a few sentences, I had changed forever who my...

Compared to the vastness of space and time, the Bible God is a trivial thing....

So what was I left with? Innocent people experienced pain and suffering, prayer seemed to...

I know that most of the people in the churches I grew up in would...

The more I got involved in leadership, the more frustrated I became with the “ungodlike”...

Self-care does not have to be a chore. It does not have to take a...

From that moment on, it finally made sense to me. This was the god that...

It’s no wonder that I and many of my peers struggle with self-doubt and anxiety....

I realized that there weren’t very many open Latino atheists that I was aware of....

Lack of respect, autonomy, privacy, and decency, along with the constant threat of hell, of...

I set about finding answers for my children, and for myself. A point of irony...

My goal as a chaplain is to broaden the circle of inclusion, so that every...

The word "Atheist" has a bad connotation. But many people do not realize that they...

As a naturally argumentative person (and former educator who taught persuasion), I am very interested in the...

One of the things I enjoy about where I am in life is that I...

In case you're new here, this blog is the product of volunteers and employees of Recovering from...

For five years, I taught high school English in a small rural district in Illinois....

Cassidy's last post is a great demonstration of one of the quite common experiences of the ex-religious:...

It's hard to generalize much about Christianity, which is only to be expected for a...

When the map and the terrain differ, trust the terrain. - Swiss army proverb If...

When Christians begin to seriously doubt, the reactions of the people around them are predictable....

One of the inexplicable side effects - or maybe not, I don't know - of doing...

A few years ago, my colleague Hemant Mehta wrote a post over at Friendly Atheist entitled...

Doubt is nothing more than the dawning suspicion that something is wrong with a person's...

This is a part of an ongoing series following a campaign going on in central Illinois called...

This one time, I thought I felt the Holy Spirit moving in me. When I...

In this video, I will tell the allegory of Plato's Cave and make references in...