Rather than setting people free permanently, much of religion’s purpose is to keep people enslaved, repeat customers, with a lifetime commitment. Even when our innate freedom is staring us in the face and beating within our chest and screaming from our minds, we look...

Jesus is not located. He is not centered. There is no center. There is no boundary. There is no place, sacred or secular. The All in all cannot be found because this is nowhere. The All in all cannot NOT be found for this is everywhere. ALL MY ART, SOPHIAS, CARTOONS,...

Group think provides many comforts. One of the major ones is that it validates what you're thinking. In religion or the church, it validates your theology. Of course, it's given you the theology it validates. So when you decide to think for yourself, you often find...

Have you guys read The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion? It's her powerful, articulate and moving account of the year following the death of the her husband. Unable to believe and process what happened to her, her loss, her mind continually played tricks on...

This got tons of attention of the internet when I posted it yesterday. And the reactions were sometimes fierce. So I thought I'd post it here if you wanted to make any comments. I know some of you were directly under MD's ministry.

Now that you can think freely (actually, you always could, but now you finally realize you can because you've already suffered the ramifications of independent thinking), I would like to propose an experiment. The more brutally honest you are about the sufferings you...

Hagere and I were chatting yesterday about one of our favorite philosophers, Slavoj Žižek, and it reminded me of this post I wrote some time ago. We can go on making our small choices, ‘reinventing ourselves’ thoroughly, on condition that these choices do not...

After I had my transformational dream in May of 2009, I realized that I had a very unhealthy image of myself. I saw that I grew up nurturing and being nurtured in a very negative self-view together with the whole human race. I fell in love with Reformed Theology in my...

I have had many revelations along the way. Many "ah-hah!" moments. But none were greater than a simple little dream I had in May of 2009: I am looking up at a huge waterfall. I can't see over the rim. The water pouring over the rim is infinite. The falls hit the...

Something we have to get used to when we leave the church is not hearing, over and over again, the "ought and must and should" routine that, in my experience and observation, is the fuel that runs the engine of religion. Every week what was required of us was preached...