Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Ex-Communications

Home
Nonreligious

Christianity

Select a Category Abraham Agnosticism Announcement Atheist Authentic Bible Child Abuse Christmas Clergy Project Clergy Sexual Abuse Coming Out Community Cults Deconversion Doubt Exmuslim Family Fundamentalism Grief and Loss Hell Hope Hotline Humanism Islam Jehovah's Witness Jesus Judaism LGBT Manipulation Methodist Money Morality Mormonism New Testament Normalize Atheism Old Testament Oppression Pantheism Pastor Perspective Philosophy Politics prayer Prophecy Psychology Rachel Held Evans Reconstruction Recovering From Religion Religion Religious Trauma Syndrome Ryan Bell Science Secular Therapy Project Sexuality Shame Socio-Economics Teresa MacBain Therapy Truth Uncategorized Video Women

Select a Month July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014

May 2015

May 17, 2015

Games Christians Play: Making Your Faith Impossible to Disprove

[This article previously appeared on Godless in Dixie] Not too long ago, a post I...

May 15, 2015

Group Identity: When We Join the Tribe.

When people leave Christianity, a lot of stuff tends to change for us, but even...

May 13, 2015

The Blame Game.

I thought this survey was so straightforward that even the most dedicated ostriches in the...

May 12, 2015

Lessons Unlearned

Written by guest writer, Galen Broaddus Contrary to what might be the typical experience, I’ve...

May 08, 2015

When Fear Is Overcome.

In "Watership Down" the rabbits allude to it, how too much fear can sometimes make...

May 06, 2015

Your New Life Awaits.

Here's what my post-Christian life looks like. (Spoiler: It's awesome.)

May 03, 2015

Christianity Has a Major Boundary Problem

Christianity has a boundary problem. It has a major problem respecting and maintaining personal boundaries. What do I...

May 01, 2015

Five Things to Check When You Hear a Claim.

Christianity does love making a lot of unsubstantiated or even completely refuted and debunked claims....

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Why I Can Do Without “Christian Love.”

Even the Bible's anonymous authors knew that it's super-easy to love the lovable, in the...

April 24, 2015

Picking Up the Pieces After a Rapture Scare.

When I realized that the Rapture hadn't really happened that fateful night, I was both...

April 24, 2015

“I’m Still the Same Person You Married!” Or Am I?

“I’m still me,” I insisted to her as she sobbed next to me in our...

April 23, 2015

The Rapture Scare.

I learned a lot from a similar Rapture scare that my fundamentalist denomination of Christianity...

April 20, 2015

Confuse ‘Em and Lose ‘Em.

I want to sidetrack briefly because I was noticing earlier in a discussion of Christian...

April 17, 2015

An Ideal Compromiser.

Often people rejecting religion don't have the faintest idea what compromise is or how to...

April 17, 2015

Achieving Escape Velocity from Planet God

Religion, like a celestial body, exerted a powerful pull on my life. I was heavily...

April 15, 2015

3 Things I Didn’t Know About Personal Compromise.

When I deconverted, and no longer had any reason to automagically grant my then-husband or...

April 13, 2015

That Four-Letter Word: Compromise.

I'm starting to realize that I had a hugely dysfunctional relationship with compromise. Like my...

April 10, 2015

The Defection of Jimmy Carter.

Once upon a time, what people knew about Jimmy Carter likely went along these lines:...

April 08, 2015

The Coin We Recognize.

A long time ago I ran across a metaphor that changed the entire landscape for...

April 08, 2015

When Your Child Is Terrified You’re Going to Hell

Two nights ago as I was working through the nighttime routines with my daughters I noticed...

April 06, 2015

A Favor You Never Asked For.

It's the Easter holiday, and there's a lot of crap getting written about sacrifices, this...

April 01, 2015

What “Religious Liberty” Legislation Actually Means.

Even these bigots, however, know that bigotry is bad and that bigots are bad people....

March 2015

March 27, 2015

The Changing Face of Christianity’s Boogeyman.

Christian zealots adapt with the times. There must always be an enemy. If the flocks...

March 25, 2015

Phil Robertson’s Shocking “Bet” Has a Simple Answer.

(Content note: Rape, Duck Dynasty nastiness.) I keep wondering when right-wing conservative Christians will finally...

March 23, 2015

Pick a Gear: Love or Terror.

Christians still use the lovey-dovey stuff... until it is clear that it isn't working. Just...

March 18, 2015

How I Ended Up Converting to Pentecostalism In My Teens

Recently one of our regular commenters asked the following about my last post: Frankly I'm...

March 16, 2015

Why Don’t Women Just Leave Fundamentalism?

I can tell sometimes that it gets really frustrating (or as folks said in my...

March 16, 2015

The Pastor’s Dilemma: Speaking to Power While Tending to Pain

(Guest post by Clergy Project member "Stan Bennett"-- Stan is still an active minister who...

March 11, 2015

Playing a Hand of Sympathy Cards.

Sometimes it can be really hard for those hearing about such a transition event to...

March 04, 2015

The Magic Christian (Doesn’t Exist).

Often when an ex-Christian leaves religion, every stop gets pulled out to try to get...