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May 2018

May 03, 2018

Peace, Church.

I know there are so many of you who have been hurt by the church....

April 2018

April 26, 2018

No, Jesus Never Said We Could Earn Jewels For Our Future Gold Crown.

It has been a little over seven years that I hit the reset button on...

April 18, 2018

On Being an Agnostic Student of Jesus Christ.

"What do you mean you are an agnostic student of Jesus Christ?" I am often...

April 09, 2018

Jesus, the Artist: Man Can Corrupt Religion, Not Art.

“Every great love starts with a great story...” Nicholas Sparks We all love stories....

March 2018

March 27, 2018

The Gift of Easter: Jesus Gave Us the Holy Spirit, Not the Bible.

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle...

March 19, 2018

Goodbye, God: A Final Letter to the God I Used To Believe In.

Dear God I once believed in, Hello old "friend", it's me again. Today, I come...

February 2018

February 18, 2018

To the Apostate: Backsliding Away From Religion and Back to the Prince of Peace.

"This would be the first step in apostasy; men first forget the true, and then...

February 12, 2018

Be Mine: I Think God Loves Us Like This, Not The Way We Were Taught.

Forget diamonds, I'd rather have a dog as my best friend, or God, they're a...

January 2018

January 12, 2018

Blessed Are The “Shithole” Countries, the Kingdom Belongs to Them.

Can you imagine Jesus calling Haiti or other countries in Africa "shithole" countries? Yesterday in...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

An Ex-Evangelical’s Guide to Christmas: What I Told My Kids.

Christmas 2017 was the fifth consecutive year I have not attended church services during the...

December 13, 2017

No ‘Moore’ Members Only: Club almost Elected a Child Molester to U.S. Senate

If you aren't an ex-evangelical or former fundamentalist Christian, you may be scratching your head...

November 2017

November 16, 2017

Wild Horses: The Last was First to Ride, Here Is What We Found.

"Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses we'll ride them some day." -The...

November 09, 2017

To the “Godless”: We Must Stop the Rising Theocracy of Radicalized Christianity

"Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love." 1 John 4:8 During...

October 2017

October 11, 2017

The Line in the Sand: I Side with Eminem and So Would Jesus

My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't 'Til...

October 10, 2017

Onward Christian Soldiers: The Culture War I Grew Up in Fighting for “Jesus”

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be...

October 03, 2017

Leaving Las Vegas: Returning with Hope and Promise of a Better World

Like many of you, my heart is boiling with fire raging blood in response to...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

WWSD (What would Satan do?): A New Grassroots Movement

WWJD (What would Jesus do) was a popular phrase in evangelical circles in the 1990's. It...

September 29, 2017

Dear Christian Conservative: An Open Letter from an Ex-evangelical

Dear Christian conservative, I do not know how to co-exist with you anymore and...

September 09, 2017

Empty the Pews: Top 10 Reasons I Support #EmptythePews on Twitter

It has been almost six years since I emptied the pews of church. I haven't...

September 06, 2017

DACA and the Gospel: Jesus is a DREAMer

If you grew up in Fundamental American Christianity, chances are you sung the...

August 2017

August 18, 2017

Believing in Hope: What if the World is Going to Get Better?

Like many of you, believing in hope is a difficult task these days. Let's entertain...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

Heaven: Would the Religious Right Even Want to Go There?

One of the most beautiful concepts I learned as a child growing up in church...

May 2017

May 23, 2017

To the Black Sheep

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, And...

May 17, 2017

Why My Children Will Not Be Attending Vacation Bible School at Your Trump/Liberty University Supporting Fundamental Church.

Dear Friend, I know you think you're doing the right thing. I know you're guilt...

May 01, 2017

Jerry Falwell Jr. Says ‘Evangelicals Have Found Their Dream President.’ It is Time for Us to Denounce these Pharisees and Speak Out.

Saturday, April 29, 2017, Jerry Falwell Jr., an influential evangelical leader and president of Liberty...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

I Asked God to Break My Heart For What Breaks His…

Ten years ago, when I was at the height of my Christianity, I prayed a...

March 08, 2017

Are We Guilty of Political Elitism?

Growing up in Fundamental Christianity gave me many beautiful roots to grow from. Seeds were...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

If Being a Christian Means XYZ, then I am not a Christian.

In his book, Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America, Randall...

February 09, 2017

What if you were a refugee?: How to Inspire Empathy.

Like millions of human beings around the world, I am struggling to understand the political...

February 05, 2017

The Good News in the Age of Trump: Believe in the Age to Come.

I was taught at a very young age, as long as I can remember, what...