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 [...]

by JezuzFree
Note by Laura: JezuzFree wrote this beautiful poem and I thought I’d share. His blog can be found here.
A word about this poem by JezuzFree: I wrote this as my parting prayer, as it was the very last day that I considered myself a Christian, even though prior to that I had been [...]

When I was a Christian, I had trouble making friends. I was a lot more shy than I am now. Even now, though, put me in a room full of Christians and I clam right up out of habit. I don’t blame them. I don’t know why I am that way at all. I just [...]

How bad is it that I still get hurt when someone from my college deletes me as a friend on Facebook or doesn’t invite me in a group or invites my ex-husband as a friend without inviting me? Yeah, sounds pretty ridiculous when I write it out. Is it that I am just getting upset [...]

I received a letter from someone who asked why so many ex-fundamentalists choose atheism as opposed a more moderate version of Christianity. He used a very interesting analogy–here is an excerpt from the letter, which seems to be very genuine:
Well, I look at it like this. If the Mars Candy Co. screws up in one [...]

I saw one of the kids from the last youth group I helped lead before moving here and joining the ranks of the non-believers. While grocery shopping,  I rounded the aisle and there she was.  I felt a little panicked: what am I going to say to her? A dozen conversations ran through my head, [...]