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June 2019

June 29, 2019

Episode 4: Leaving My Religion Was Nothing Like Entering It

People love to say that atheism is a religion. I can't tell you how many...

June 25, 2019

Episode 3: We Did As We Were Told

Those of us who broke up with Jesus (he wouldn't return our calls) are accustomed to having...

June 22, 2019

Episode 2: The Two Main Reasons I Left My Faith

In the last installment, I gave my reasons why I broke up with Jesus. I...

May 2019

May 26, 2019

Why Faith Isn’t a Virtue

As a left-leaning atheist living in the most religious state in America, I stay keenly aware...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

Faith and the Power of a Magic Feather

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." --Philippians 4:13 Growing up evangelical,...

March 05, 2019

Why I Chose the Atheist Label

Back in 2014 when I finally came to grips with the fact that I was...

March 01, 2019

Kissing Hank’s Butt

**Originally this story appeared under a slightly different title, but I've altered a couple of words...

February 2019

February 20, 2019

The Stubbornness of God

I've struggled a lot with precisely how to view religion, but I may have finally...

February 17, 2019

Where Do Morals Come From?

Quite often I find myself in conversations with folks who feel that I left my...

February 15, 2019

The Christian Finish

If you are like me and you've got years of writing as a Christian out...

February 05, 2019

No Longer the Center of the Universe

I've written before about the prevalence of projection among people of faith (if you haven't...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

We Never Expected God to Make Us Happy

I recently heard a sermon reminding us all that "God never promised to make us...

January 23, 2019

Trying to Love Lauren Daigle

Lately I can't seem to listen to my streaming music app without hearing Lauren Daigle's...

December 2018

December 11, 2018

Why Christianity Keeps Producing Hypocrites

Few things are more central to human nature than hypocrisy. In a way, our whole...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Disagreeing with You Doesn’t Mean I Hate You

From time to time I get commenters who accuse me of hating Christians and, no matter...

October 2018

October 18, 2018

What the Church Is Doing Right

I work for a humanitarian network, so I spend a lot of time talking about...

October 02, 2018

My Struggle: A Black Atheist Wrestles with Anti-Intellectualism and Low Expectations

Guest post by James Murray A few months back after recording my podcast interview with...

September 2018

September 23, 2018

Screen Doors and Porch Swings

When I first came out as an atheist online, it was one of the most terrifying...

August 2018

August 12, 2018

How Faith Taught Me to Distrust the Rest of the World

I’ll never forget the first night I attended a youth group meeting during high school....

July 2018

July 30, 2018

Writing My Way Out of Brokenness

Brokenness, brokenness is what I long for Brokenness is what I need Brokenness, brokenness is...

July 03, 2018

Esau Have I Hated: The Problems of Pascal’s Wager

As an out-of-the-closet atheist, I’ve been asked many times before by well-meaning Christians, “But what...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

How Trump’s Legal Defense Mimics Christian Apologetics

This week during season two of The Trump Show in an episode entitled "How Far Will...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

The S Word: Self-Esteem

I remember hearing once as a child – in a sermon or a Sunday school...

May 13, 2018

What I Hear When You Say “Not All Christians”

Not too long ago I restated my critique of the standard Christian teaching that, while...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

What If Christianity Were True?

Defenders of the Christian faith spend a considerable amount of time trying to prove that...

April 10, 2018

How Faith Breaks Your Thinker

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

March 2018

March 18, 2018

Why Evangelicals Just Don’t Care

A week ago, Forbes published an opinion piece by Chris Ladd, a lifelong Republican who...

November 2017

November 25, 2017

How the Bible Helped Me Become an Atheist

Christianity immortalized the seeds of its own deconstruction by putting them in the mouth of its...

November 18, 2017

Does It Take Faith to Be an Atheist?

"I don't have enough faith to be an atheist." I know it must be gratifying...

November 11, 2017

FAQ: Should I “Come Out” as an Atheist?

A religion editor for a national publication wrote me recently with a couple of questions...