Exchanging the Legend: On Reinterpreting Our Religious Pasts
This one time, I thought I felt the Holy Spirit moving in me. When I was in high school, one of my passions was music. I played in a handful of bands (all Christian bands, naturally), but one in...
View ArticleDoubt Is Not a Spiritual Health Problem
This is a part of an ongoing series following a campaign going on in central Illinois called Room for Doubt. For more background, check out the first article in the series, Is There Room for Doubt? A...
View ArticleOpposing Religion Isn’t Always the Greatest Good
A few years ago, my colleague Hemant Mehta wrote a post over at Friendly Atheist entitled “The Christian Church Won’t Become More Inclusive… and That’s Good for All of Us,” which was a response to a...
View ArticleThe Algebra of Post-Deconversion Relationships
One of the inexplicable side effects - or maybe not, I don’t know – of doing the writing that I do here (and to a lesser extent, the other secular work I’m involved in) is that I sometimes have people...
View ArticleTrust the Terrain: Why Reality Trumps Revelation
When the map and the terrain differ, trust the terrain. - Swiss army proverb If you are reading this, congratulations, you survived the apocalypse. (Well, probably. Time will tell whether we’ll find...
View ArticleWe Didn’t Expect Some Kind of Spiritual Bliss
Cassidy’s last post is a great demonstration of one of the quite common experiences of the ex-religious: the attempts of the still-religious to explain (or, at their most polite, inquire) why we left...
View ArticleIn Defense of Bad Expressions: A Banned Books Week Meditation
For five years, I taught high school English in a small rural district in Illinois. During my tenure there, one of my main goals was to improve student reading by leveraging student choice, and because...
View ArticleWe Are All Recovering on Different Paths and Points
In case you’re new here, this blog is the product of volunteers and employees of Recovering from Religion (hereafter RR), an organization that seeks to help individuals who have left religion. RR does...
View ArticleThis Sword Has Two Edges
One of the things I enjoy about where I am in life is that I have managed to keep and gain friends in a few different spheres. Even after deconverting, I’ve managed to keep a number of my Christian...
View ArticleIf This is Your Best Argument, You Have Nothing to Offer Me
As a naturally argumentative person (and former educator who taught persuasion), I am very interested in the arguments and rhetoric that others use, especially religious people toward nonbelievers. I’m...
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