There are some wonderful Christians who comment on my blog. And I have some wonderful friends in real life who are very supportive. It still throws me off when I confess that I’m on my second marriage at 26 and people don’t judge me for it. But in real life, I hardly ever have any [...]

Last week, I got through Matthew 5:20. Today, I am going to wrap up Chapter 5 and see how far I get in under 1500 words.
Matthew 5:21-48
I have decided that I don’t need Richard Dawkins to be an atheist. The Bible itself, when examined without an emotional lens, makes no sense. And is a little [...]

When I write a guest post somewhere or someone else links back to my blog, I don’t usually discuss it unless it’s relevant to another post (like my Hanukkah post). I will post it on Twitter, but I try not to toot my own horn too much (not that it’s a big horn. It’s actually [...]

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 [...]

I found it. The journal I kept in my earliest days of college, naivete dripping from every word. I can barely read it. Some people don’t really believe what I write. Could I really be so innocent? I challenge them to make it through more than two entries before they start kissing my feet, begging [...]

Even though it all fell apart, and  while most of these didn’t last, there were things I liked about being a Christian while they did. Here  are five:
1. Church events: I had a lot of fun at church parties.
2. My youth group: in 8th grade, I had the best youth group ever. They helped keep [...]

Josh and I come from similar backgrounds. He wrote a post describing the questions and experiences he had. Reading it, I felt at times I was reading the male version of me! Here are some highlights:
I was born and raised in a Christian home. My father was a pastor so I know a measure of the bible, and some [...]

Huge confession time. The type of confession that will probably yield hate mail and loss of readers.
You know that song, “Jesus Loves the Little Children”? (If you don’t, click here, but I warn you, it’s not Tchaikovsky!) It talks about how Jesus loves children of every race. Why is it then, that even in Christian [...]

I confess I didn’t spend enough time in liberal denominations to understand the mindset of that brand of Christianity. Raised to value the truth above all, I don’t understand why spend your life praying to a God just because it makes you feel good. The abstract concepts of a Bible maybe or maybe not inspired [...]

I used to sing in church a lot. I am not a soloist, but I do very well in a group. Because I did well in a group, most people assumed I would do well as a soloist and I sang a lot in both churches. I was never good enough for anything beyond the [...]