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November 2014

November 01, 2014

Mars Hill Church Closing For Good…

Halloween night here in Princeton and I was just trying to hand out candy, watch...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Evangelicals For Marriage Equality

[Photo By: BEN CHRISMAN] Churches are splitting, congregants are leaving, parents are abusing, and denominations are...

October 24, 2014

Should You Go to Seminary?

[Photo provided and taken by @lauralawsonvisconti] Should you go to seminary? As a young man I...

October 22, 2014

A Simple Method to Resolve an Argument

[Illustrated by Kadriya Khayrutdinova. Edit suggestions by Anne Diebel.] Every time, in the heat of...

October 17, 2014

Is Christianity Really Dying?

[A more comprehensive look into the study, research, and it’s methods can be found here...

October 15, 2014

Mark Driscoll Resigns

At first I was glad, but I find myself now incredibly sad upon hearing that Mark...

October 15, 2014

Partial Justice: Woman Locks Officer in Basement

[Woman Locks Officer In Basement: You might have seen this pop up on Reddit the...

October 14, 2014

The Cost of Leaving Christianity

You know sometimes you tell a lie so long, you don’t know when to stop....

October 09, 2014

1500 Year Old Bible [and why you shouldn’t trust everything you read on the internet]

So apparently in 2012 a 1500 year old bible re-surfaced in Turkey after supposedly having...

October 05, 2014

Pentecostalism and Spiritual Abuse

[This is a guest post written by Carly Gelsinger] We were the "chosen ones," the ones...

October 02, 2014

Pseudo-Pacifism: Why Privileged People Love Quoting MLK

[The uncensured version of this photo was doctored, original photo is of MLK showing a...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

Why I Still Believe in God

I still believe in God. Hesitantly. With many theistic believers proposing that God exists because...

September 08, 2014

DeChristianizing: Chatting with Conservatives

Lem, as you'll hear in the video, professes to be an evangelical, while Brent is slightly...

September 07, 2014

THE SAGAN SERIES – The Pale Blue Dot

"There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant...

September 03, 2014

Steven Furtick and Elevation Church: Emotionally Manipulating Baptisms

When I lived in Southern California I would visit various churches, the one I’d attend...

September 01, 2014

Theological Abuse: The Problem is Not Mark Driscoll

Hypothetically speaking, if Mark Driscoll did in fact decide to resign from Mars Hill Church,...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Jon Stewart on Ferguson

“Race is there, it exists. You’re tired of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting...

August 26, 2014

Ignorance Kills

I think that one of the most fundamental reasons in regards to misunderstandings on the...

August 22, 2014

How to Deal With Friends’ Racist Reactions to Ferguson

How to Deal With Friends’ Racist Reactions to Ferguson is a Guest Post from JENÉE...

August 22, 2014

How to Deal With Friends’ Racist Reactions to Ferguson

How to Deal With Friends’ Racist Reactions to Ferguson is a Guest Post from JENÉE...

August 20, 2014

Why I Kept Going to Church

When people hear my story, they often ask me why I stayed in church, and...

August 19, 2014

We Are Ferguson

I asked a local seminarian and active pastor this week what his thoughts were about...

August 18, 2014

A New Sexual Ethic

As I’m on the journey of “de-Christianizing” myself I’ve openly challenged the idea of sexual...

August 14, 2014

Revolution of Niceness: Differentiating Between Good and Nice

I'm not sure anyone else within white Americanized Christianity, is saying it so I will: The...

August 12, 2014

Dealing With Depression:

In the wake of both Robin William’s and Philip Seymore Hoffman’s passing many of us...

August 06, 2014

10 Reasons I Love Pope Francis

I'm not Catholic, I'm barely protestant these days, and I don't really ever plan on...

August 04, 2014

Mark Driscoll vs. The Internet

Spoiler Alert: Mark Driscoll is losing. I don't have a TV - but after a...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Dear Pastor Who Keeps Emailing Me…

I think there is the widespread assumption that I left the Church because I, personally,...

July 28, 2014

How The Internet Killed [Westernized] Christianity

The question is valid, "How much more do we have to take from the church...

July 24, 2014

Millennials and Religion [Part 2]: Gone and Not Coming Back

[It took me a while to write this, as I thought I'd have a post up...

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