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March 2015

March 13, 2015

Ex-Ex-Gay

I don’t know if there was a single moment when I realized that I had...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

The Christian Delusion: Why Stay When Something Better is Being Offered?

A few days ago I was listening to this podcast called "This American Life," if...

February 09, 2015

The Worship Leader: Marginalized because I was gay #TheDechurched

[Photo from @dankadanka] #StoriesFromTheDechurched is a series with no end date in mind collecting stories from those who have...

February 02, 2015

The Ambitious Woman: Challenging the Status Quo #StoriesFromTheDechurched

#StoriesFromTheDechurched is a series with no end date in mind collecting stories from those who have left the...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Doubting God #StoriesFromTheDechurched

#StoriesFromTheDechurched is a series with no end date in mind collecting stories from those who have left the...

January 15, 2015

Mega-Church Pastor that Allegedly said “N-Word”

The "n-word" is one of the most divisive and emotionally charged words within our U.S. context. I think social...

January 13, 2015

Wounded, but Healing

“I'm at a point in my life where everything is falling apart and everything is coming together at the...

November 2014

November 18, 2014

My Interview on the John and Kathy Show

It's always a pleasure to be on the John and Kathy Show as we might...

November 10, 2014

Escaping Evangelicalism: The Process of Healing from Spiritual and Theological Abuse

I don’t have the strength to perpetually pretend as if I’m someone I’m not. Some...

November 02, 2014

I Went Back to Church

I went back to church this week. It's been close to a year since I've...

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 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 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 08, 2014

DeChristianizing: Chatting with Conservatives

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

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 26, 2014

Ignorance Kills

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

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...