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I have a love-hate relationship with Thanksgiving Day. On the one hand, it’s a great...
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I have long supposed that if marketing companies would study my wife, they’d have all...
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At Last, I am Free!
One of my favorite songs from my younger days is “At Last, I Am Free”...
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Prayer — The Zero-Percent Solution
What is your measure of success? No one or no thing is 100 percent reliable....
February 02, 2022
Where Are the Miracles?
Back in my preaching days, I always looked forward to the miraculous. Whenever I saw...
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Spit In Your Face
One of the most disgusting bible stories is when Jesus made mud out of spit...
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The True Thief
A wise man (who may have been either a fictional or composite character) once said,...
October 21, 2021
Worship…or Not?
Mainstream — and even much of “off-the-beaten-path” — christianity is centered around the concept of...
October 19, 2021
God Ain’t Just
Last week I wrote about how I believe god isn’t good. This week, I’ll double-down...
October 15, 2021
God Isn’t Good
When I was a pastor, I loved the old call and response. You know, when...
May 2021
May 18, 2021
Agreement is not Essential to Unity
The human body is a marvel of design and engineering. A variety of elements come...
April 2021
April 20, 2021
The Superhero Narrative
Everyone loves a superhero story. The world is in imminent danger of either being destroyed...
April 02, 2021
Easter and the Big Lie
It’s Good Friday (observed). This means it’s time for religion to trot out “The Great...
March 2021
March 31, 2021
Exporting Belief
I haven’t written anything in awhile. To be perfectly honest, I haven’t been inspired. The...
January 2021
January 05, 2021
Self-Love — The Greatest Love of All!
The song, “The Greatest Love of All” actually had it right. When religion was the...
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November 18, 2020
Jesus – Concept, Prototype, and Production
When I was a kid growing up in Detroit, one of my greatest joys was...
August 2020
August 26, 2020
Love vs. Like
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike...
August 14, 2020
A Gift to Humanity – Remembering my Father-in-Love
Last week was tough for me. My Dad was in the hospital and all the...
August 06, 2020
I’m Grateful!
I’m grateful! As I navigated the uncertain waters of my deconstruction from religion, I went...
August 03, 2020
Detoxing From Christian Churchianity
“Hi, I’m Derrick. I’m a recovering churchaholic.” “Hiiiiiiiii Derrrrrrick!” Once upon a time, I was...
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July 28, 2020
What Jesus Came To Do
Salvation. What comes to mind when you hear this word. If you’re a christian, you...
June 2020
June 27, 2020
At the Intersection of Despair and Hope
I’m rarely geographically lost. When I was a child, my Mom used to take me...
May 2020
May 07, 2020
Don’t Be Black – A conversation I hope you never have to have with your kids
Once again, I am in the unenviable position of having to have “the talk” with...
May 06, 2020
Love|Defined – Empathy and Compassion
This week's installment is an excerpt from my upcoming book, "Love|Forward - Moving Forward at...
April 2020
April 30, 2020
Belief and Knowledge
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to belief, lately. Not so much what I...
April 22, 2020
Death…And Ignorance
Given a sufficiently long timeline, everyone experiences death. Death comes to family members and friends;...
April 14, 2020
The Bible Clearly Says…NOT!
In my last installment, I explained why I am no longer a bible/scripture literalist. In...
April 08, 2020
Why I No Longer Believe in Scriptural Inerrancy
One of the great things about achieving escape velocity from the black hole of religion...
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March 16, 2020
Pandemic and Pandemonium
I’m neither given to writing on current events nor am I a purveyor of bad...
March 03, 2020
Divine Anthropology – The End of Theology
One of the things I discovered on my road to Deconstructing Religion is that theology...
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