Falling from Grace: 15 years after losing my faith
Jesus' disciples were told to sell everything they have and give the proceeds to the poor before they could follow him. The earliest records of the assemblies Peter built show…
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…
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…
Gut Check for the New Atheist Jerks
Note: In this post you’ll notice that I lump various groups into a single group. I call atheists, skeptics, agnostics, and etc all Humanists – largely based on the assumption…
Testimony of a Dying Man
Last night a friend of me sent something to me from a friend of his who is dying. I don’t know the man who wrote this personally and his name…
Songs of the Deconverted by Jim Etchison- Review
It’s rare that I find stories that so precisely and eloquently put words to the way it felt for me as I lost my faith. It’s rare that I ever…
Tragedy sans God
Prior to last week I had never been to a funeral for a friend. I’ve been to funerals of course; when the parents of one of my friends died and…
The problem with certainty
I recall being certain that God existed, that he loved me, and that he was embodied in a set of books we call the Bible. I was so certain of…
Finding common ground with an evangelist street preacher
What’s a street preacher doing here? This last Saturday I was doing some audio work at the local Pondtown Festival; a little arts, crafts, and music festival in the tiny…
Facing Doubt with Integrity and Honesty
There are a few Christian ministries popping up here and there that are dedicating themselves to ministering to doubters, one such ministry is called Credo House which has recently hosted…