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January 2025

January 01, 2025

Good Questions – Did My Tradition Get it Right?

Good Questions – Did My Tradition Get it Right? "The master key of knowledge is,...

June 2024

June 15, 2024

Why Taylor is Better than Trump

Why Taylor is Better than Trump In this enlightened age, most of us would probably...

February 2023

February 19, 2023

Evaluate Your Religion

Whether or not you are directly involved with your religion, it's time to make an...

February 10, 2023

Here’s to You!

When rapper Snoop Dog received his star on the Walk of Fame, he stepped up...

February 07, 2023

Riding the Wave Into the Desert

I know the metaphor doesn’t make much sense, but I wanted to get your...

February 02, 2023

I’m Still Mad at Organized Religion

I'm not an expert at mental health issues, but I do know that anger is...

January 2023

January 18, 2023

What if Christianity Was New

WHAT IF CHRISTIANITY WAS NEW by Karl Forehand What if Jesus had just left the...

January 01, 2023

It’s Okay to Evolve

People have always been drawn towards things like religion to try to explain the things...

December 2022

December 23, 2022

How the Codependency Works

Every time we planted a church, we felt like we were doing something totally different....

December 03, 2022

You Are Not Alone

Photo by Ron Lach‏ I live in a county that is 75% Republican. There are...

November 2022

November 21, 2022

I Don’t Hate God or Religion

Occasionally someone accuses me of hating God or Religion. Neither one of these things is...

November 19, 2022

Outgrowing Our Religion

In my best evaluation, people have always been drawn towards things like religion to try...

November 18, 2022

The Church is Out of Space

Recently I listened to a discussion about a book I'm involved with called Parenting Deconstructed....

September 2022

September 23, 2022

How Religion Ruins Sex

(This is an excerpt from our book, Out into the Desert) I don’t remember the...

September 22, 2022

The Things That Hurt

In 20 years of ministry, I have never had anyone refuse to take communion from...

September 19, 2022

Would Jesus Go to Church?

(An excerpt from our book, Out into the Desert) When we decided not to go...

September 13, 2022

The Main Thing

This is an excerpt from our book, Out into the Desert, concerning "evangelism" and the...

August 2022

August 24, 2022

The Journal of My Deconstruction

They told me early on that it's important to be able to summarize your writing...

July 2022

July 15, 2022

The Origin of our Fears

As much as we would hate to admit it, most of our lives are totally...

January 2022

January 01, 2022

Out Into the Desert

Five years ago, when we stepped down from our final church to dive into our...

December 2021

December 18, 2021

The Natural Death of Organized Religion

Yesterday I finished listening to the podcast series, "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill." ...

October 2021

October 16, 2021

Christianity is not Under Attack, it is Under Review

Photo by EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA from PexelsA few days ago, my daughter sent me a Tik...

March 2021

March 07, 2021

The Problem with Preachers

Last week, an article made the rounds about a pastor that suggested from the pulpit...

February 2021

February 20, 2021

The Love That Doesn’t Lift Me

Currently, I work on an assembly line. It monotonous, long hours of doing the same...

February 14, 2021

Out into the Desert: Thriving Outside Organized Religion

Over a year ago, we stopped attending church. After our deconstruction, we immediately started attending...

November 2020

November 08, 2020

The Limits of the Organization

In my denomination of origin, they used to talk extensively about the value of a...

July 2020

July 16, 2020

Would Jesus Go To Church

When we decided not to go to church anymore, we didn’t really know whether this...