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August 03, 2017
Mysticism Merges with Atheism
Editor’s Note: A former Self-Realization Fellowship monk and current Clergy Project member informs us, with...
July 2017
July 31, 2017
JESUS MADE ME HATE MYSELF
Editor’s Note: After the review of Fernando’s book, it seems logical to feature some of...
July 27, 2017
Book Review: To the Cross and Back: An Immigrant’s Journey from Faith to Reason
By Fernando Mosheh Alcántar Forward by Dan Barker 2015 Editor’s Note: Unlike our other contributors,...
July 24, 2017
Why Not Believe in a Different Kind of God?
Editor’s Note: I first heard about today’s essayist in a Washington Post article in 2006,...
July 20, 2017
My Family After Losing My Faith
Editor’s Note: This is Matthew’s second Rational Doubt post since he recently joined The Clergy...
July 17, 2017
No Clergy Guilt for Naturalist/Secular Chaplain
Editor’s Note: With input from 12 current or former non-believing clergy, we’ve discussed guilt from...
July 13, 2017
The End of Jewish Guilt
Editor’s Note: The third and last Rabbi featured in the series on non-believing clergy guilt...
July 10, 2017
Non-Belief Begets Humanistic Approach
Editor’s Note: The second Rabbi in the “Jewish guilt” series, Shlomo Levin, served for 15...
July 06, 2017
Tradition and Responsibility Outweigh Jewish Guilt
Editor’s Note: Now on to Jewish guilt – or to be more precise, responses to...
July 03, 2017
Happy 3rd and FOURTH of JULY
Let’s take a break from the guilt of non-believing clergy to celebrate the 241st anniversary...
June 2017
June 29, 2017
Complicated Seventh-day Adventist Guilt Story
Editor’s Note: In the non-believing clergy study that Dan Dennett and I conducted, I interviewed...
June 26, 2017
Quick but not Painless Way to Dodge Clergy Guilt
Editor’s Note: Like recent poster Bob Ripley, this former minister managed to avoid guilt by...
June 22, 2017
This Atheist Ex-Pastor has More Questions and Insights than Guilt
Editor’s Note: This writer is an example of someone who left his pastorate while still...
June 19, 2017
Seminary Professor Handles the Guilt of Non-Belief
Editor’s Note: Unlike those who have responded so far to the “guilt” questions, this Clergy...
June 15, 2017
Categorically Shedding Decades of Clergy Guilt
Editor’s Note: I first met this poster as “Adam Mann” in 2009 when I interviewed...
June 12, 2017
The Curious Guilt of a Formerly Fundamentalist, now Progressive Pastor
Editor’s Note: The following responses to my “Guilt” questions come from the somewhat unique perspective...
June 08, 2017
Scenes from “Caught in the Pulpit”, Play-in-Development
I’m excited to tell you about a recent program “Caught in the Pulpit: Exploring the...
June 05, 2017
Feeling Lots of Guilt; Moving On
Editor’s Note: I met “Stan” a couple of years ago shortly after he joined The...
June 01, 2017
Guilt #2 – Deep Regret for Teaching Heaven’s Eternal Reward
Editor’s Note: Continuing the “clergy guilt” theme, we take a look at how guilt at...
May 2017
May 29, 2017
Feelings of Guilt among Non-believing Clergy – Part One
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series on non-believing clergy guilt, inspired by...
May 25, 2017
Gerencser – Dear Dax, Words Have Meanings
Editor’s Note: Here’s a chance to vicariously enjoy the schooling an evangelical pastor-turned-atheist gives to...
May 22, 2017
A PATRIOTIC BLIND EYE
Editor’s Note: This was originally written this past February and unfortunately it’s just as timely...
May 18, 2017
Re-interpreting Mystical Experience
Editor’s Note: If you’ve ever thought of trading your current set of beliefs (or non-beliefs)...
May 15, 2017
Letting Go of Fundamentalism
Editor’s Note: Meet Matthew, a new Clergy Project member who tells us how he finally...
May 11, 2017
Counting Down to the Final Easter
Editor's Note: This calculation shocked me and rather upset me, because I like Easter – at...
May 08, 2017
Why Are So Many Evangelical Preachers Arrogant and Full of Themselves? (Part One)
Editor’s Note: This former preacher waxes eloquent about the kind of guy he used to...
May 04, 2017
The Birth of a Nation: Uncomfortable truths writ large
Editor’s Note: This essay has it all: The horrors of slavery, modern day racism, accusations...
May 01, 2017
A Recovering Yogaholic
Editor’s Note:After reading Scott Jacobsen’s interview with “Scott”, the former Self-Realization Fellowship monk, I wanted...
April 2017
April 27, 2017
Interview with “Scott” of Skeptic Meditations
Editor’s Note: Rational Doubt is grateful to have another Clergy Project member interview done by...
April 24, 2017
The Real Reason I Left Christianity
Editor’s Note: This former pastor became a non-believer, like so many of the people who...
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