I discovered PostSecret while still in the ministry and read it faithfully every week, sobbing every time. It’s one reason how I know I have grown: I can now look at the secrets I can relate to and feel for the writer, but I don’t fall to pieces anymore.
Yesterdays’ post was full of good ones. [...]

You know there’s something wrong with the abstinence movement when young people are discouraged from reading parts of the Bible! We were encouraged not to read Song of Solomon, aka Song of Songs, as single people, because it was so sensual. I think it was because the woman is described in a way that Solomon [...]

Leah, a former Mormon who blogs at The Whore of All the Earth, asked on Thursday how we have replaced prayer in our lives if we used to be religious. I realized, a bit surprised, that I don’t miss prayer at all. In fact, I feel a lot less stressed because of it!
Prayer for me [...]

My parents, good Christians that they were, carefully monitored everything we watched on television. Very few modern shows were allowed, with even certain G-rated movies deemed “inappropriate.” (They have, by the way, relaxed a bit over the last few years.) Instead, we watched quite a few rather horrendous Christian B-movies. Some of these included the [...]

There is one thing I never understood about Baptist theologians. With Ph.D.’s in theology, they claim that Jesus is their best friend. How can you be best friends with someone you have to have a Ph.D. to understand?
I found it rather confusing because person A believed a certain passage asserted a particular cultural value or [...]

1. The census Luke speaks of wasn’t during the time period of King Herod written about in Matthew.
But even if it was, we know that it wouldn’t have happened the way it was described because:
2. The census Luke writes about would have created disruption beyond belief, and would have been remembered. But no independent source [...]

Last night, I caught up on a few episodes of Law and Order: SVU from season 10. If you watch the show, guess which episode caught my eye?
Here’s the preview for it

Basically, they smashed together a few news stories and added a twist. That part doesn’t interest me. What interested me was the dialogue at [...]

One of the comments I often hear from non-atheists is something along the lines of, “Why be against religion? It’s not hurting anyone!” Well, that depends on who you talk to, but there is something else buried deeply you don’t hear very often. It’s sort of the reverse of Pascal’s Wager. Pascal’s Wager states if [...]

If my mom knew I was doing this, she would probably be quite happy. I am sure both my parents would start praying for a Josh McDowell type conversion. The more I think about him, the less I understand. I should probably read the book he wrote about it, but heck. Maybe I will re-convert [...]

To outsiders looking in, conservative Christianity seems to demean women, yet women often say that they don’t feel that way at all–that being submissive has helped their marriage and they feel empowered and protected. To the outside world, they proclaim how wonderful it is to submit. But the reality is more secretive than that; that [...]