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August 2021

August 16, 2021

Why the Church Keeps Getting Covid Wrong

I live in the Deep South, and now that the Delta variant is here, I'm...

July 2021

July 20, 2021

Why the Gospel Doesn’t Work on Exvangelicals

People like me are like flies in the ointment of evangelical theology. We did all...

July 13, 2021

Four Ways Tim Keller’s Gospel Falls Flat

In the penultimate chapter of his Reason for God, Tim Keller attempts to pull together...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

God Is Not to Blame for This

A younger friend recently told me she knows a number of guy friends who don't...

August 2020

August 07, 2020

C.S. Lewis and the Art of Holy Deception

It only recently occurred to me that I am now older than C.S. Lewis was...

July 2020

July 23, 2020

C.S. Lewis and the Argument from Wishing

Yesterday I posted the first of what I plan to become a series of chapter...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

Dear Preacher, It Isn’t Your Fault (But It Is Still Your Responsibility)

I'd like to say a few things to those entrusted with leading evangelical Christian communities...

June 14, 2020

Episode 30: Screen Doors and Porch Swings

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

May 2020

May 10, 2020

The Culture Wars Have Jumped the Shark

When I was in college and seminary, my professors were always sounding the alarm over...

April 2020

April 09, 2020

How ‘Be Not Afraid’ Endangers Us All

I think I've finally put my finger on what's beneath my frustration with my fellow...

March 2020

March 05, 2020

The Coronavirus and a Better Gospel

As you may already know, last night President Trump phoned in an interview to Hannity and brazenly disagreed...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

Movements Will Chew You Up and Spit You Out

While finally cleaning out a room that I swore three years ago would become a...

February 07, 2020

Episode 29: What Atheists Wish Christians Knew About Them

I kept my deconversion a secret for nearly four years, but after being "outed" against...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Episode 28: Deconstructing the End of the World

Back in the 7th grade I got invited to a weekend-long retreat put on by...

January 22, 2020

Episode 27: Hell 2.0, Now with Fewer Flames!

It never fails that every time I try to deconstruct the traditional Christian concept of...

November 2019

November 29, 2019

Episode 20: Five Times Jesus Sounded Like a Humanist

I've said before that I'm not much of a fan of Jesus. If the reports of...

August 2019

August 09, 2019

It’s Not Just a Phase, Mom!

Anyone with the nerve to "come out" as an atheist to religious friends and family...

July 2019

July 14, 2019

Episode 7: How Christianity Teaches You to Hate Yourself

One of the great joys of living in the Bible Belt is that you can...

July 10, 2019

Saints and Sinners: An Arbitrary Distinction

Last week in a Chicago suburb, a Baptist pastor's wife was charged with sexual assault of...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

How Evangelicals Handle Doubt

I visited another local church yesterday, and as usual it left me with some...thoughts. Friends...

January 2019

January 15, 2019

Why the Book of Revelation is Suddenly Relevant

What if I told you the book of Revelation really does have something to say...

November 2018

November 22, 2018

How the Church Became What Jesus Hated

While I've considered myself an atheist for nearly a decade now, sometimes I go back...

November 04, 2018

Husband to Wife: Without Jesus You’re Unlovable

I interact almost daily with friends who no longer buy the Christian story but whose...

June 2018

June 24, 2018

Evangelicals and the Whitewashing of Jesus

Nothing within white evangelical Christian theology explicitly says that people with brown skin are bad,...