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June 2014

June 02, 2014

How Cat-Tipping Taught Me To Be Gentle To Myself.

It's a gorgeous super-early-Monday morning; insomnia's got me watching the dawn while the cowcat is...

June 02, 2014

Oh Noes! A Baptism Drought!

One group of Christians, however, is finally coming to grips with their own drop in...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Praying for Reconversion

We haven't waltzed together into the Unequally Yoked Club for a while, have we? Strike...

May 08, 2014

Interlude: On Being Afraid, Anniversary Edition

I've been noticing some folks around the internet talking about their looming or newly-discovered deconversions...

March 2014

March 15, 2014

Taking the Religion Out of the Ex-Christian After Deconversion

You can take the person out of religion, but it's sometimes much harder to get...

January 2014

January 26, 2014

Why I’m Happy to be an Ex-Christian.

I saw this piece about how life is better now that some folks are out...

January 16, 2014

Leaving Church–Forever–And What Happened Afterward

Today we're going to talk about leaving religion--and what happened to me after I made...

January 06, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Building a Better Husband

A social experiment is technically just an experiment run on people, to study how groups...

January 05, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: What Changed, and What Didn’t

After I deconverted, my husband was convinced that I'd change dramatically. I wanted to talk...

December 2013

December 08, 2013

How I Learned To Relax and Just Make Pies.

I used to have such a love-hate relationship with cooking, but especially with baking--the bane...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

We All Crazy, and We Do What We Do (and yes, that means Teo Bishop, too)

There's this guy named Teo Bishop who left Christianity to become a druid and he...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: (You’re All) Genuine Christians. (Okay?)

Fred Phelps thinks he's one. So does Brother Jed, the Pope, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer,...

August 22, 2013

Redefining Words: Faith

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen....

August 10, 2013

Redefining Words: Facts

I've got to admit, one word that really bothers me to see misused by toxic...

August 05, 2013

Rachel Held Evans and How to Totally Miss the Point

Recently, a Christian blogger wrote a piece for CNN about why young people seem to...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Judging Christianity’s Validity

I've been thinking lately about exactly why I reject Christianity and what I would consider...

July 21, 2013

Feeling A Burden (for Atheists)

A bit of housekeeping: Richard Carrier is coming out with a book that deals with...

July 15, 2013

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: (Yes, They’re In Decline)

The sky is falling, but Christians are looking at the ground to find out why....

July 13, 2013

Assumptions: Making An Ass Out of U and Mptions

In the last week I've had Christians making assumptions about me like five times, so...

July 04, 2013

Freedom.

I'm an American, if anybody hadn't caught that yet. Today is very special to me...

June 2013

June 02, 2013

The Power of Prayer, Part Two.

I needed answers, and I needed them quickly.

May 2013

May 25, 2013

The Power of Prayer, Part One.

It's not an exaggeration to say that tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands...

May 13, 2013

Leopards Don’t Change Their Stripes

Many Christians proclaim that without firm belief in their god, nobody can possibly be a...

May 11, 2013

Facts and Fictions.

It seems to me like modern culture has long forgotten what "evidence" and "proof" involves....