Reading Time: 7 minutes 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 make money. Someone else said I must have a problem with authority because I […]
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What’s wrong with asking for a miracle?
Reading Time: 6 minutes 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 usually reach for one of several non-rational causes: Somebody hurt you once You went to the wrong church You just want […]
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Straw skepticism and The Reason for God
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s difficult for me to take a book seriously when it misrepresents my own views as consistently as does Tim Keller‘s The Reason for God. I am only on chapter three and already I’ve encountered enough straw men and red herrings to make me want to quit reading. The next chapter is the one that […]
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Revisiting Tim Keller’s The Reason for God
Reading Time: 7 minutes I don’t really care for apologetics books. It’s a tedious chore to make it all the way through them, and interacting with them is exhausting because for every single word it takes to put forth a bad argument it takes ten to properly debunk it. But in every decade there seems to be a favorite […]
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Why are so many doubters unable to leave faith? Watch and read.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Former Christian pop singer Alisa Childers was born into God, lost faith in Him but couldn’t abandon him. Why not, if all the evidence showed the way?
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The Coronavirus and a Better Gospel
Reading Time: 6 minutes As you may already know, last night President Trump phoned in an interview to Hannity and brazenly disagreed with the World Health Organization about the fatality rate of the latest global health threat, the COVID-19 virus. Viewing the appearance of the Coronavirus as more of a public relations issue than as a matter of public health, Trump takes […]
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Religious doubt is far older than even antiquity’s doomed Hypatia
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pagan philosopher Hypatia in the 5th century AD was a world-class doubter of supernatural ideas, including Christianity’s. She was dismembered and burned.
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Secular website helps doubting or atheist clergy re-imagine their lives
Reading Time: 4 minutes An organization and website that aids religiously skeptical pastors and priests now boast 1,000 members. But leaving faith is still more than a click away.
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Episode 10: Why Smart People Believe Nonsense
Reading Time: 6 minutes Over dinner one night, I found myself explaining to someone raised outside of a devoutly religious environment that religious people are not stupid simply because they believe nonsensical things. [ iTunes | spreaker | youtube | pdf ] I’ve had this same conversation several times now, each time with a different person whose professional life has […]
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How Evangelicals Handle Doubt
Reading Time: 6 minutes I visited another local church yesterday, and as usual it left me with some…thoughts. Friends on social media seem a bit perturbed that I keep doing this to myself, but I have good reasons for it. My family is one of many torn apart by the culture wars that have been driving wedges between loved […]