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December 2014

December 03, 2014

Tea Party America Just Spent 7 Years Lynching our First Black President So What Chance Do You Think a Young Black Man in Ferguson Had?

Since white Tea Party/Fox News/Republican Party America lynched President Obama in slow motion over the last...

December 02, 2014

Something You’ll NEVER See in ‘Christianity Today’ magazine: My Facebook Friends’ Answers to This Question: “How to help former evangelicals navigate their way out of despair and towards meaningful action?”

"Find a safe place. Come to understand just how unsafe and destructive evangelicalism is. Whether...

December 01, 2014

How to help former evangelicals navigate their way out of despair and towards meaningful action?

Here's a letter from one of my readers that asks: "Because you have your finger...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Is It Time to Dump the Word “Evangelical”?

According to Wikipedia “Evangelicalism is a worldwide Protestant movement, maintaining that the essence of the...

November 29, 2014

There were two ANGRY MALES in our house, Dad and our Jewish/Christian “God.”

Unlike Jesus, my father tried to follow the Bible. So there were two ANGRY MALES...

November 28, 2014

I was ready to punch you out for raising questions I couldn’t answer so how nutty all these years later the only reason I even hope there’s a God and am reconciled to my son– is because of you

I vividly remember being lectured, harangued, insulted, corrected, and yelled at by a man who...

November 28, 2014

This “Black Friday” Please plant an Empathy Time Bomb in the brain of your favorite Certainty Addicts & Help Me Financially Too

This “Black Friday” Please plant an Empathy Time Bomb in the brain of your favorite...

November 24, 2014

Give me 56 MIN and I’ll (Maybe) Give You Your Faith in Jesus Back (WATCH My new Talk)

Here's my new talk I just gave at the wonderful Colorado Springs Library. Will you...

November 24, 2014

This Thanksgiving Share Your Story with Me on my Facebook Page about Your Deliverance from Fundamentalist Certainty & I’ll Publish It

Go to my Facebook Page at and tell me about what happened to you in...

November 22, 2014

“The Empathy Time Bomb” My New NPR Interview

My latest National NPR interview "The Empathy Time Bomb" please listen and share... CLICK HERE...

November 22, 2014

The Best Talk I Gave

Here's the best talk I've ever given. Please share!!! TO WATCH CLICK on THIS...

November 17, 2014

Why Evangelicals Need Christian Dildos

"At My Beloved's Garden, we provide a safe non-pornographic place to shop for all your...

November 13, 2014

Please Do Me a HUGE Favor

Please Do Me a HUGE FavorGo to your local Barnes&Noble and buy my new book...

November 13, 2014

My “Morning Edition” NPR Interview ( Please take the short 9 minutes this interview takes and join me as I explain my book)

Here's my new NPR interview about my new book. Please take the short 9 minutes...

November 09, 2014

I have a nagging question for my atheist friends: if we’re nothing, why bother to convince us of our nothingness? Who cares?

Today’s secular science of human insignificance inspires its own theology. This secular theology assigns...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Religious Trauma Syndrome and/or How Dr. Dobson, Billy Graham, Bob Jones, Christianity Today, Wheaton College et al, Do More Harm than Good

In my book WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give...

October 22, 2014

For All My Sisters Who Might Feel Like Giving Up in This Stinking Misogynistic Pit We call the World

There are women reading this who have known despair, will know despair or are in...

October 05, 2014

“Transparent” is Willing to Take on the Actual Complexity that is in Each of Us When it Comes (no pun) to Our Sexual Lives

Transparent is great! Jill Soloway, the show's writer and director/creator is brilliant. If Amazon’s book-selling success...

October 04, 2014

My Parents Stayed Married Because my Father Tearfully Apologized for Hitting Mom and then Worked to Curb his Violent Male Dominant (Calvinist-Fed) Temper

My parents stayed married because my father tearfully apologized for hitting Mom and then worked...

October 01, 2014

Christianity Today is scared of Peggy, Tony and Bart Campolo (and me) and wants to help evangelicals brainwash their children more effectively

Christianity Today is scared of Tony, Peggy and Bart Campolo and wants to help evangelicals brainwash...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

Ironically this authentic vibrant refuge was across the street from the hate factory “church” Mars Hill Church

Last night I sang children’s songs with a group of children and adults with Intellectual...

September 17, 2014

The future of the meta-universe Church is not going to be about more or less entertainment, rock bands or cool hip young leaders but about openly embracing doubt

What’s needed to save the dwindling Church is a new paradigm: the embrace of atheism...

September 09, 2014

Hooray for the Serendipitous Messy Exchange of Body Fluids!

"We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

The impact of Jesus’ feminism has yet to be fully realized

The impact of Jesus’ feminism has yet to be fully realized. Even famous women receive...

August 20, 2014

Please watch this extended interview with me on Who, What, Where, Why– of my views, books, sex, marriage, parents, faith, doubt and everything else…

Please watch this extended interview with me on Who, What, Where, Why-- of my views,...

August 16, 2014

“This is what being raised in the southern Bible belt will do to you…If it is ok, I will share my head for the first time to anyone”

NOTE: If you come from an evangelical background and feel anguish you are not alone....

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