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June 27, 2016
Believe It Or Not – Noah’s Ark Not Suitable for Children
Editor’s Note: Welcome to a new “Believe It Or Not” series, written by Clergy Project...
June 23, 2016
How to Quell Doubts While Harboring Your Own?
Editor’s Note: We’ve explored clergy doubt quite a lot here, but we’re looking at it...
June 20, 2016
Biblical Untruths about Abuse – Learned Firsthand
Editor’s Note: This was painful for me to read, but I’m glad I did and...
June 16, 2016
How Now Shall I Live?
Editor’s Note: In this account of a first-time experience with a secular crowd, the writer,...
June 13, 2016
My First Reason Rally – A Relief and a Thrill
Editor’s Note: Two posts this week are written by Clergy Project members that I had...
June 09, 2016
Building Bridges after Deconstructing Faith
Editor’s Note: It’s quite common – and quite understandable – for people who have left...
June 06, 2016
Glimpses of Reason Rally 2016
I am happy and exhausted from two days of Reason Rally activities, starting with the...
June 02, 2016
Reason Rally by Proxy
Editor’s Note: Reason Rally 2016 is upon us! It’s starting today in Washington DC with...
May 2016
May 30, 2016
The Easy Way for Atheist Clergy to Lead a Congregation
Editor’s Note: Some non-believing clergy have it easy! They can be recruited to lead a...
May 26, 2016
Why People Hate Evolution
Editor’s Note: Upon seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time, I wondered how anyone...
May 23, 2016
Final Sermon: The Torment of Irrational Belief
Editor’s Note: Instead of following the assignment to write a sermon for a secular audience,...
May 19, 2016
Tell Me about the God You Don’t Believe In
Editor’s Note: Special thanks to the writer of this secular sermon who, at my request,...
May 16, 2016
Beautiful Secular Prayers – By Dennett and Dawkins
Editor’s Note: This time, instead of a full-blown sermon, the blog is featuring what I’m...
May 12, 2016
Secular Sermon #2: Hitchens’s Advice: “If You Want to be Inspired”
Editor’s Note: This is excerpted from a series of debates Christopher Hitchens did with Christian...
May 09, 2016
Secular Sermon #1: You Don’t Have to Come Down to my Basement
Editor’s Note: Inspired by Chris Highland’s recent secular sermon, the Rational Doubt Blog has put...
May 05, 2016
Clergy Doubt Update: Still Hanging in There
Editor’s Note: It’s been over a year since this active pastor first wrote about how...
May 02, 2016
The Game is Rigged for God
Editor’s Note: Former pastor "RJ Twain" colorfully explains the doubts he experienced on his way...
April 2016
April 28, 2016
Pastor Left Church with Doubts; Became Atheist Later
Editor’s Note: Good old Mason Lane, frequent commenter and contributor here, recently introduced me via...
April 25, 2016
Nature: The New American Religion – WOW
Editor’s Note: As humanist communities become more popular, more Clergy Project members are being called...
April 21, 2016
Why I Don’t Care Much About Jesus
I know what an important figure Jesus is in Christianity, but I must admit, he...
April 18, 2016
Why I Hate Jesus
Editor’s Note: Wow! Those former fundamentalist preachers sure can let loose when it comes to...
April 14, 2016
Excuse me — Seminary Education is NOT Useless
Editor’s Note: Watch out -- My colleague on the blog is pissed! She’s had it...
April 11, 2016
Is Atheism A Religion?
Editor’s Note: “Always Puzzled” commented on our most recent blog post that atheism was a...
April 08, 2016
Why Can’t I Be Like Everyone Else?
Editor’s Note: This Clergy Project member ponders a question that I also pondered while studying...
April 05, 2016
More Catholic Church Sex Abuse – In the News & Personal
Editor’s Note: There are reports of another disgusting, Catholic child sex scandal cover-up – this...
April 02, 2016
Update: Rev. Vosper to undergo United Church of Canada “fitness review”
As reported in a recent article in CTV (Canada) News: The United Church has decided...
March 2016
March 31, 2016
What I Like About Donald Trump
Editor's Note:Alert! This post was written in August of 2015. This was before the Hitler...
March 28, 2016
Divorcing Spirituality
Editor’s Note: Clergy Project member Chris Highland suggests that his encounters with nature in his...
March 24, 2016
Two Active Clergy Openly Deny Bodily Resurrection
Holy Week rituals can be tough for clergy who are ambivalent about or simply do...
March 21, 2016
Holy Week – Liberal Christian/Atheist Clergy Style
This past Saturday, I gave a talk on the Dennett-LaScola study of non-believing clergy at...
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