David’s anger clock post yesterday got a lot of attention it seems.  I immediately related, as did my wife and I’m sure many others.  I asked myself why.  Is it because we’re just a bunch of angry people now, here to bash church?  Hateful and spiteful?  Of course not – it’s really exactly as David’s cartoon illustrates – all of us had shit happe…[Read more]

I’ve been at a new job for about 10 months.  There is a guy I work with there – the resident “church guy” the “Christian” and I’ve been kind of playing games with him.  He is new to the area so he doesn’t know the history and I haven’t said a word about my past life – the pastor life, or anything religious.   So, being new, he will start to talk ab…[Read more]

Through some recent things that have happened in my life I’ve realized a few things.  Without really realizing it I’ve shut myself down the last few years.  Going from walking away from the church, the gradual decline of my faith, almost losing a child and a really stressful job situation over the last few years – I can realize now that I just turn…[Read more]

So, it’s been almost a year since my wife (SaraJ on here) started to fully embrace deconstruction.  I’ve been kind of on that path for about 13 years but I was kind of avoiding it or had my back to it.  When I found David’s Naked Pastor site and then Lasting Supper, I finally turned around and faced this head on.  As did my wife, and it’s been a he…[Read more]

My wife (SaraJ on here) had an experience a couple of weeks ago with her brother.  SaraJ briefly touched on it in another topic but I thought I’d throw it out there.   We were having a little family birthday party for my daughter and we got into a discussion with her brother and his wife about church stuff.  We all grew up together in the church (n…[Read more]

Just watched this recent SNL skit.  At one time I probably would have been horribly offended.  Now I think it’s pretty funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CknpHpmIJtI

I was thinking today of some of the absurd things I used to believe and speaking in tongues came to mind. For those of us that were involved in the sects of Christianity that believed this – does anyone have any thoughts on how we could possibly have convinced ourselves that it was real?  Something that was so common in my church years now seems …[Read more]

Hello.  I just picked up The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.  I’ve heard a lot about him and I’ve been curious on his views.  I’m wondering if anyone else has read this or his other work and what are your thoughts?