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November 2021

November 05, 2021

Christianity Was Never About Democracy, Anyway

Christianity, it turns out, has never been interested in democracy. People used to tell me...

September 2021

September 12, 2021

Making Space for Non-Binary Children In a Red State

"This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; They...

August 2021

August 22, 2021

Christians Need Their Faith to Be True

When you leave the Christian faith, people come out of the woodwork to impugn your...

July 2021

July 09, 2021

But Why Does There Have to Be Blood?

With only three more chapters to go in Tim Keller's The Reason for God, it...

July 01, 2021

Your Religion Is Special, Just Like All the Others

I remember once believing that my religion was unlike all other religions in the world....

May 2021

May 14, 2021

Believing In Evolution, But Not Too Much

Moving on to Chapter 6 in his The Reason for God, Tim Keller takes on Richard Dawkins, who...

May 14, 2021

The Evolution of Hell in The Reason for God

Growing up in an evangelical church I was taught that no matter what it is...

May 09, 2021

Christian History, Revised

Tim Keller must read history through a highly specialized pair of lenses, because what he...

May 08, 2021

Revisiting Tim Keller’s The Reason for God

I don't really care for apologetics books. It's a tedious chore to make it all...

May 07, 2021

You Don’t Belong On That Cross

The American Church has been feeling the loss of their cultural relevance, and they’re not...

February 2021

February 20, 2021

Why Evangelical Christians Love Multi-Level Marketing So Much

Why do so many evangelical Christians gravitate toward multi-level marketing schemes? Expatriates from the faith...

February 02, 2021

What Kind of Parent Would Your Faith Make?

We are not fallen angels but emerging beings. --Bishop Spong I've been trying for a...

December 2020

December 13, 2020

Trump Laid Bare the Gullibility of the Church

Around the time that American conservatives lurched overnight from hating Donald Trump to loving him,...

July 2020

July 22, 2020

C.S. Lewis and the Law of Nature

For years now, I've been putting off writing a review of Mere Christianity by C.S....

January 2020

January 15, 2020

Episode 26: Absolving God from Hell

One day at the pool I saw a toddler almost march right off the edge...

December 2019

December 20, 2019

Episode 25: Seven Reasons to Reject Hell

I receive a good many emails and private messages from friends who still struggle with...

December 13, 2019

Episode 24: The Bible’s Attitude Toward the Life of the Mind

"Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. Here...

December 11, 2019

Episode 23: Paul, the True Founder of Christianity

When I was in college I used to get so perturbed by my Bible professors...

December 06, 2019

Episode 22: The Most Failed Prayer In History

Defenders of the Christian faith can't stop moving discussions about their religion from objective matters to...

October 2019

October 21, 2019

Episode 19: The Christmas That Wasn’t

Growing up, my favorite superhero was definitely Superman. Hands down, no one else captured my...

September 2019

September 25, 2019

Episode 15: Father Abraham Had Many Psychoses

It’s funny how you can read a story or watch a movie at two different...

August 2019

August 23, 2019

Episode 13: What Lot’s Wife Tells Us About the Bible

Years ago Robert Fulghum wrote a best-selling book entitled All I Really Need to Know I...

August 20, 2019

Episode 12: None of This Really Happened

When I first started writing and speaking to groups about my departure from the faith,...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

Episode 11: The Absurdity of a Perfect Bible

Even on its own terms, an inerrant Bible is an absurdity. I'll explain what I...

July 24, 2019

Twenty One Pilots and the Evolution of Evangelism

Last week, an excellent Q&A post about evangelism got widely passed around which came from,...

July 21, 2019

Episode 10: Why Smart People Believe Nonsense

Over dinner one night, I found myself explaining to someone raised outside of a devoutly...

July 19, 2019

Episode 9: How Faith Breaks Your Feeler

In my last post, I enumerated about a dozen ways faith normalizes bad thinking, teaching...

July 17, 2019

Episode 8: How Faith Breaks Your Thinker

Someone wrote me recently to ask: What drives you to be so adamant in sharing...

July 08, 2019

Episode 6: What I Lost When I Lost My Faith

I've written before about how I can identify with Buzz Lightyear in the movie Toy...

July 02, 2019

Episode 5: What I Gained When I Lost My Religion

People often ask me if my life is better now that I've left my religion. My...