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July 2026

July 02, 2026

Dethroning Jesus and Enthroning Yourself

Jesus Never Asked to Be Worshipped. He Asked to Be Understood. Christianity spent two thousand...

June 2026

June 01, 2026

The Gospel According to the Third Eye

What If “I AM” Means Self-Realization? Christianity has spent two thousand years arguing over who...

May 2026

May 27, 2026

Adam > Jesus?

Christianity’s Strange Math Problem Christian theology contains a contradiction that becomes difficult to ignore once...

February 2022

February 04, 2022

Prayer — The Zero-Percent Solution

What is your measure of success? No one or no thing is 100 percent reliable....

February 02, 2022

Where Are the Miracles?

Back in my preaching days, I always looked forward to the miraculous. Whenever I saw...

October 2021

October 19, 2021

God Ain’t Just

Last week I wrote about how I believe god isn’t good. This week, I’ll double-down...

April 2021

April 20, 2021

The Superhero Narrative

Everyone loves a superhero story. The world is in imminent danger of either being destroyed...

April 02, 2021

Easter and the Big Lie

It’s Good Friday (observed). This means it’s time for religion to trot out “The Great...

January 2021

January 05, 2021

Self-Love — The Greatest Love of All!

The song, “The Greatest Love of All” actually had it right. When religion was the...

November 2020

November 18, 2020

Jesus – Concept, Prototype, and Production

When I was a kid growing up in Detroit, one of my greatest joys was...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

Love vs. Like

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike...

August 06, 2020

I’m Grateful!

I’m grateful! As I navigated the uncertain waters of my deconstruction from religion, I went...

August 03, 2020

Detoxing From Christian Churchianity

“Hi, I’m Derrick. I’m a recovering churchaholic.” “Hiiiiiiiii Derrrrrrick!” Once upon a time, I was...

July 2020

July 28, 2020

What Jesus Came To Do

Salvation. What comes to mind when you hear this word. If you’re a christian, you...

April 2020

April 22, 2020

Death…And Ignorance

Given a sufficiently long timeline, everyone experiences death. Death comes to family members and friends;...

April 14, 2020

The Bible Clearly Says…NOT!

In my last installment, I explained why I am no longer a bible/scripture literalist. In...

April 08, 2020

Why I No Longer Believe in Scriptural Inerrancy

One of the great things about achieving escape velocity from the black hole of religion...

March 2020

March 03, 2020

Divine Anthropology – The End of Theology

One of the things I discovered on my road to Deconstructing Religion is that theology...