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January 30, 2015
Reconnecting the Disconnect.
I'm not some ingenue who bounced briefly into one lukewarm church and then danced out...
January 28, 2015
Yes, We Talk About Being Ex-Christians. And That’s Okay.
When we deconvert from religion--especially if the experience was traumatic--we've got a lot to get...
January 28, 2015
Say It Ain’t Poe: When Fake Letters Say Exactly What Too Many Christians Think
From time to time this editorial piece gets circulated in which a woman complains that...
January 28, 2015
What is Real?
Many products are designed to imitate the real thing. There is plastic decking that looks...
January 26, 2015
I Kind of Knew, Long Before I Realized I Knew.
I prayed on my own, sure, but not as much as I knew I should...
January 23, 2015
Glorification of the Wrong Things: Over-Dependence.
It floors me that Christians imagine their god as not only condoning their utter dependence...
January 21, 2015
Making Changes.
Last time we hung out, I shared why I was afraid of change. But I...
January 19, 2015
Fear of Change.
I want to share today the reasons why I myself struggled with making changes. I've...
January 19, 2015
That Moment Your Preteen Starts Evangelizing You
This past weekend I did the same thing I do about this time every year:...
January 16, 2015
What Changed, and What Didn’t.
All I knew about apostasy was what my church preached on the subject, so you...
January 16, 2015
The High Cost of Leaving Your Faith
A reader once asked me a question which I think deserves a post of its own...
January 14, 2015
Disqualified.
All those apologetics, which I was slowly starting to debunk and unravel? To go by...
January 14, 2015
Reading Through My Old Journals, I Found This…
I generally date my loss of faith to the late summer of 2009, but I...
January 13, 2015
Meek and Mild No More: Learning From the Lamp Who Lights My Heart
NOTICE: This article contains detailed descriptions of non-consensual contact and uses graphic religious imagery and...
January 12, 2015
The Day I Found the Guru on the Mountain
In this little leatherbound journal, I had recorded how--a few months after I'd quit going...
January 09, 2015
Why Life is Meaningful.
There are a lot of false dichotomies and false dilemmas in Christianity ("you're either with...
January 09, 2015
The Lies that Bind Us
(Guest post by David Hayward) Sophia: Trapped I am beautiful. I am free. I am...
January 07, 2015
A Strange Sort of Evolution.
I think I've mentioned--probably only a few dozen times, sorry--that I deconverted in my mid-20s....
January 05, 2015
The Meaning of Life.
One thing that Christianity definitely does well is convince its people that without its teachings,...
January 02, 2015
The Scary Superfluity of It All.
Mr. Bell began his journey with one question. It seems like there's always one question...
January 01, 2015
A Year Without God Led Ryan Bell to Life Without God
One year ago, Ryan Bell made the news when he announced his plan to live...
December 2014
December 31, 2014
Male Shame: Broken Promises.
One of the darkest secrets of male indoctrination into shame is that this training makes...
December 29, 2014
Male Shame: The Heart of the Second Hill.
Last time we hung out, I discussed why Christianity's leaders are so concerned about women's...
December 26, 2014
Male Shame: The First of the Twin Hills.
Sometimes we hear an opinion referred to as "the hill that person will die on,"...
December 26, 2014
Shame On You! (Is Good for the Church)
Darrel Ray, founder of Recovering from Religion and director of the Secular Therapy Project, published a thought-provoking article...
December 24, 2014
Male Shame: The Lost Boys.
Gender roles for men have traditionally focused on how very, very different men were thought...
December 24, 2014
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Most of you are familiar with the Charles Dickens classic novella, A Christmas Carol. One...
December 22, 2014
Male Shame: The Trumpet He Heard.
I've been digesting the amazing article "Male Shame" (posted right here recently, and if you...
December 20, 2014
Male Shame
Guest post by Darrel Ray, Ed.D., a psychologist and author of several books including Sex and God:...
December 19, 2014
Battle Tactics.
It's almost a routine by now. A Christian makes a religious claim, so I'll ask...
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