SinlessLast year, I was chatting with a friend around my age who, like me, grew up tightly ensconced in evangelical Christian culture and, like…May 25, 2024May 25, 2024
OUT NOW! HOW TO LEAVE THE CHURCHPart memoir and part self help guide, How to Leave the Church confronts the heartbreaking, hilarious, often embarrassing aspects of life…May 3, 2024May 3, 2024
Enough is Enough: Thoughts on Suffering and an Absent GodThis article was originally published on my blog Weird Name on November 18, 2016. Current events have been updated accordingly.May 21, 2023May 21, 2023
Thank God I’m an Atheist: COVID-19 EditionI spend a lot of time thinking about the years I spent all-in with evangelical Christianity, mostly because I spend a lot of time writing…May 21, 2020May 21, 2020
The Knowledge of Good and EvilAccording the story I grew up with, the world started in a garden.Mar 20, 2020Mar 20, 2020
On Writing (and Re-Writing) My Own StoryFour years ago I started my blog Weird Name by writing a bunch of essays about losing my religion. Literally, I used R.E.M.’s famous lyric…Nov 13, 20191Nov 13, 20191
Rethinking the Golden RuleLearning I Need to be Nice to Myself (Despite All Messages to the Contrary)Sep 26, 2019Sep 26, 2019
A God By Any Other NameI’m currently reading through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. It’s a book I started for the first time about five years ago, but I…Aug 27, 2019Aug 27, 2019
What Is Love?We act as if the definition of love is, to borrow words from one notorious explorer of the subject, a truth universally acknowledged. We…Jul 23, 2019Jul 23, 2019
