Reconstruction: A short story by Sarah Jessup
I felt the sting of the words like an ant bite on a warm summer’s day. It was subtle but the longer it sat the worse the sting felt. “Besides,…
Pushing the Gospel on Easter Sunday
Today is Easter Sunday, and outside my window I can hear birds singing through the occasional rush of cars leaving the church just down the road from my house. In the…
Swapping Realities – God and family
Often times, when Christians leave their faith they’ll find themselves swapping realities with their loved ones. There seems to be a common phenomena of spouses and parents becoming hyper-religious as…
Unbreaking the Broken Self (pt 1)
On my way home to work last night I was listening to fellow Southern apostate Neil Carter’s guest appearance on The Humanist Hour and I heard him talk about being less…
Grief and the loss of your faith
This particular post is being written with the ex-christian and ex-believer who has embraced atheism or agnosticism in lieu of their former faith. This is done because this is where…
Why Cling to Faith?
Those who fully embrace doubt do so at the expense of every comfort they've ever known.
Choosing Hell
If I end up in Hell I didn't choose it. It will be an inevitable result of an inability to buy the Christian religion, or any other religion for that…
On Being Nothing: Strong Belief, Strong Doubt, and the Skeptics Role
Authors note: This post will use a lot of Christian catch phrases and paraphrase a lot of Bible verses, so if I use the term “soul” I’m not stating…
The Burdens of Doubt
Many times when discussing the path of doubt with those that have yet to experience or embrace it they come to the conclusion that it is easy, simple, or even…