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July 2017

July 27, 2017

Busting the First Myth About Having Meaning and Purpose in Life

It can be hard to detangle all that indoctrination when someone deconverts, because their entire...

July 25, 2017

The Big Secret About the Meaning of Life (That Christians Don’t Want People to Know).

Strap in and hang on--keep your hands and feet inside the SUV at all times...

July 13, 2017

Another Christian Band Bites the Dust

I saw this one video the other day and thought it was really good--but something...

May 2017

May 09, 2017

You Lost Me: And How They Lost Us

David Kinnaman always couches Prodigals' disbelief in terms of how they came to disbelieve. The...

April 2017

April 20, 2017

The Power of Good Rituals

Yesterday I found myself attending to an age-old ritual that actually works, and I was...

April 02, 2017

Leaving the Shack to Find Our Independence

It seems fitting, however, to return to this topic of power now as we look...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

Evangelical Churn: A Tidal Wave of False Reasons

Sometimes we're surrounded by something before we realize just how much of it there is....

March 04, 2017

The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today

These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems'...

March 01, 2017

And Oh! They Cry Out, “Fix Me, Fix Me!”

Another Christian has a bunch of ideas that he thinks will totally fix Christianity. Unfortunately,...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

The Handbook: What It’s Like to Roll to Disbelieve

I thought that today--the most chocolate-y day of the year, so to speak--was a good...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

A Creationist Accidentally Exposes the Big Problem with Creationism

I caught this little local news snippet yesterday and thought it was interesting--both for what...

December 2016

December 25, 2016

A Christianity Without Coercion Isn’t Much of a Christianity At All.

What would happen if Christians suddenly understood that the entire mythology of their religion is...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

How Deconverting Made Thanksgiving Better

A lot of things have changed over the years for me, but one of the...

November 20, 2016

The Handbook: Intervention Conventions

We're fast approaching the holiday season, and as fun as holidays are supposed to be,...

November 04, 2016

Ray Comfort and the Cruel Dilemma

Evangelical leaders are forcing their followers into a showdown, one that it can ill-afford at...

October 2016

October 01, 2016

Evangelical Churn: The Same Thing Ed Stetzer Does Every Night

They're doing everything they know how to do as best they can, and yet they...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

NOT Looking for Group: Takeaways from the New PRRI Religion Survey

The Public Religion Research Institute just released a new study they completed about Christianity in...

September 13, 2016

The Critical Mistakes and Cosmic Irony of “God’s Club”

Christians are fighting tooth and nail to get their indoctrination into schools whether it's legal...

June 2016

June 10, 2016

Evangelical Churn: The Fury of the Tribe

You can probably imagine that Christians aren't terribly happy about Shannon Low's deconversion. Today we'll...

June 08, 2016

Evangelical Churn: A Defection, Observed

Thousands of people every day join the ranks of the ones who know. That number...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

A Little Bit Like Mourning: So Much For Your Happy Ending

Losing one's faith can feel a lot like mourning the passing of a loved one....

May 04, 2016

My Mother’s Dress

Clothes fascinate me. They're a powerful sign of our own personal individuality and a statement...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

Evangelical Churn: Accusations, Power Grabs, and Overreach

This idea is becoming one of Christians' favorite excuses for why people leave their religion...

April 08, 2016

Churn Rate: When They Are Grown, Apparently They DO Depart From It

Back when I was Christian, there was one Bible verse considered to be the ultimate...

April 04, 2016

It Is Not Enough; It Is More Than Enough

Recently I was reminded anew of something about the Christian worldview that I shed long...

April 01, 2016

Because It’s Funny and Sad: the TEN QUESTIONS.

I want to talk about who comes up with these questions and why, because I...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

Even Going At It From the Non-Literalist Angle, It’s Still Not Credible

One of the big mistakes non-believers make--especially those who've never been believers themselves--is to assume...

February 23, 2016

The Handbook: Here’s Not Why I Deconverted

Today we'll be discussing a uniquely Christian form of cold reading: their attempts to guess...

February 07, 2016

Upon My 20-Umpteenth Year of Apostasy: A Word About Authenticity

I just realized that I've now been out of Christianity for longer than I was...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

The Handbook: The Magic Christian (Doesn’t Exist)

Christians often pull out the stops when they discover that one of us has left...