The Culture Wars Have Jumped the Shark
When I was in college and seminary, my professors were always sounding the alarm over the postmodern condition, warning us that the loss of a central guiding “worldview” in America would produce...
View ArticleEpisode 30: Screen Doors and Porch Swings
When I first came out as an atheist online, it was one of the most terrifying moments of my life. I still remember how my heart pounded, how I kept the post in my drafts folder for days, trying to...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis and the Argument from Wishing
Yesterday I posted the first of what I plan to become a series of chapter reviews of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I know I’m late to this game—others have already dissected this work many times...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis and the Art of Holy Deception
It only recently occurred to me that I am now older than C.S. Lewis was when he first delivered the Broadcast Talks for BBC Radio upon which his later book Mere Christianity was based. Like him, I have...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Parent Would Your Faith Make?
We are not fallen angels but emerging beings. —Bishop Spong I’ve been trying for a while to boil down my chief objections to the faith of my youth, and I think I’ve settled on the metaphor that best...
View ArticleWhy Evangelical Christians Love Multi-Level Marketing So Much
Why do so many evangelical Christians gravitate toward multi-level marketing schemes? Expatriates from the faith know exactly why: because they’ve been training for them their whole lives. The...
View ArticleYou Don’t Belong On That Cross
The American Church has been feeling the loss of their cultural relevance, and they’re not taking it very well. It offends them deeply. The last thing they needed was to lose the social privilege...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with Asking for a Miracle?
When people ask me why I left my faith, I always find myself spending the first part of the conversation discounting assumptions they bring about why this keeps happening to people they know. They...
View ArticleWhy the Church Keeps Getting Covid Wrong
I live in the Deep South, and now that the Delta variant is here, I’m back to wearing a mask again wherever I go. School started back for us last week, and masks are mandatory because our district...
View ArticleChristians Need Their Faith to Be True
When you leave the Christian faith, people come out of the woodwork to impugn your motives for leaving. First I was informed that I did it so that I could have more sex, then I was told I did it to...
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