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January 2016

January 19, 2016

How to Spot (and Reject) a Broken System: Turnover

Last time we talked about how power manifests in broken systems. Today we'll talk about...

December 2015

December 11, 2015

Short-Circuiting the System Disconnect: Know Thyself

We've been talking lately about system design in Christianity. Today I'll show you Step 1 of...

December 03, 2015

Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: An Essential Disconnect

There are a great many discrepancies between the goals Christians say they want to achieve,...

November 2015

November 08, 2015

To Flounce or Not to Flounce: Christians Are Starting to Admit They’ve Lost Their Culture War.

I couldn't help but notice a major shift in the tenor of how Christians are...

October 2015

October 04, 2015

Naturalism: Not Gross. Not Crass. And Not Negotiable

Wow, do Christians tend to hate the idea of naturalism. One apologetics site even calls...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: Reclaiming the Journey

I'm reading this book, Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome by Reba Riley, and I wanted to talk...

August 04, 2015

The Unequally Yoked Club: Fireproof’s Fatal Assumption

While someone might see this movie and assume--as I did repeatedly--that it was hawking a...

July 2015

July 14, 2015

Why Christians Are Cruel to Non-Believers

People have always left Christianity and to some degree have spoken out against it, but...

July 07, 2015

The Handbook: Videos For Ex-Christians (and Christians Teetering on the Edge)

Sometimes it's easier to pop on a video or video series than it is to...

June 2015

June 20, 2015

The SBC Still Doesn’t Get Why Nobody Likes Them Anymore

Sometimes it's hard to believe that a culture can be this blind to its own...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Excuses, Excuses: Two Ways Christians Delude Themselves about the Pew Study.

But what this study did do was to shine a line on two particular, self-servingly...

May 02, 2015

Barna is Seeing Through a Mirror, Darkly

We've been talking about the secularization of America lately. Barna's released a new study that...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

The End of a(nother) Church

Another church is closing--part of an overall trend in America. What does it mean?

April 23, 2015

Something for Nothing: the Fear at the Heart of Christianity.

When I think about all the accusations and strawmen, all the gloating and smugness that...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

The Handbook: Examining the Evidence

I wasn't stupid, willfully-ignorant, or mentally will when I made the decision to become a...

February 04, 2015

The Handbook: Building a Worldview Around Consent

One of the biggest shifts I had to process in my thinking was my understanding...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

The Handbook: Recognizing When the Gas Lights Have Dimmed (Gaslighting)

Do you know what gaslighting is? Here is how to identify this common religious-abuse tactic...

January 04, 2015

A Response to the Response to Ryan Bell

We're coming back to the Handbook for the Recently Deconverted shortly, but I saw this...

December 2014

December 24, 2014

It’s Everybody’s Holiday (Plus: Link Love!)

I've always loved Christmas. This time of year in general is an important one for...

November 2014

November 18, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Second Fiddle.

Today I read a downright heartbreaking post (that now seems to have disappeared, alas, sorry...

November 09, 2014

Jesus, Jesus, Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink.

One of the most startling things to happen after I deconverted was the foretold coming...

November 03, 2014

More Good News: You’re Free.

I used to talk about freedom in Jesus a lot when I was Christian, but...

October 2014

October 26, 2014

The One Thing Christian Parents Aren’t Doing

Given the demonization done of ex-Christians and atheists, given how little most folks--especially fundagelical parents--know...

October 22, 2014

The Most Misunderstood Word (Isn’t Kingdom, Sorry)

Christians like to talk about misunderstood words in their religion. But they tend to be...

October 18, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Real Threat.

Last time we talked about how church leaders and teachers have been pushing the false...

October 13, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Most Important Thing.

Hi y'all! We've been talking lately about how quite a few Christians base their marriages...

October 11, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The One Pillar.

Welcome back, R2Ders! We're heading into the Unequally Yoked Club today. One thing I was...

October 10, 2014

What to Expect When You’re Deconverting (Life After Deconversion)

What you might be able to expect as you leave Christianity.

September 2014

September 10, 2014

Operation Pitchfork and A Moment of Crisis.

Like so many ex-Christians before me, for just a brief time I dangled on a...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: The Things We Did Wrong

I've mentioned before the Pentecostal-yardstick act that erupted whenever I or someone from my church...