Throughout my years of being a Christian, I worried a lot about falling away. I often voiced this fear to my close friends and mentors during my first years in college, and all of them told me that it would never happen given the strength of my faith.
“Come Thou Fount” was my [...]
Archive for November, 2008
prone to wander
Posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2008 | 8 Comments »
the simple answer
Posted in atheism on November 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The question I get asked the most is: what was the one thing that made you became an atheist? Answering this question now is as hard as it was when I originally became an atheist. I do want to explain my process, but it’s very long and comes with a large smattering of antecedents and [...]
new blog: peaceful atheist
Posted in Uncategorized on November 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I like to write, and most of my writing only seems suited to blog material. So I’m starting another blog to write about a multitude of things that don’t quite belong on this one. I want to keep the focus of Leaving Eden fairly specific, so if you want to read whatever I feel like [...]
It has parenthetical documentation. Need I say more?
Posted in Christianity, Wheaton College, atheism, deconversion on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My friend Grant is a Wheaton alum and a political scientist who is writing a book about student culture at Wheaton. I met him last year after I began this blog, upon which I found that not all Christians are complete morons.
One of the chapters in his book-in-progress is about atheism at Wheaton, and my [...]
something worth remembering
Posted in Christianity, Wheaton College, atheism, baptism, deconversion, religion, theology on November 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This week passed the anniversary of the day I was baptized. I was baptized while I was a student at Wheaton, and it was a big, big deal to me. I saw it as more than a symbol. For those at Wheaton, I’ll just say that my thoughts on baptism were very heavily influenced by [...]
pretty damn awesome
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I just wanted to report, in case any remaining readers were wondering, that my post-Wheaton life is pretty damn awesome. I live on my own in a great town that I love exploring. I have a secure job at a non-profit, which makes me poor but not in danger of being destitute. [...]
the beginning
Posted in Christianity, God, Wheaton College, atheism, college, religion on November 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This is the story of how I got to Wheaton and my first year there. This is all Christianity; not even an inkling of atheism yet, but every story has to start somewhere.
I did not actually spend my entire college career at Wheaton. I transferred there at the beginning of my sophomore year, [...]
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