Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Drumroll, please…
I graduated from Wheaton College this month. Yes that’s right, I’m “free”. I’ve known for awhile that I was going to graduate early. That’s why I stayed at Wheaton after becoming an atheist.
You’re probably expecting me to divulge some personal details about myself now that I have my Wheaton degree. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blog business on December 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I decided to take a break from finals to answer some of the questions that have been inundating my email and comments lately. I’ve answered them in a separate FAQ page and made it a permanent fixture on the blog. It only includes the questions that I get asked painfully often, and/or have [...]
Posted in Wheaton College, tagged evangelicalism, regurgitation, Wheaton College on December 16, 2007 | 19 Comments »
I had hopes that my evangelical regurgitation would be detected. I had a crazy idea that someone would call me out on it, that after listening to one of my class devotions or reading one of my papers, a professor would pull me aside and say, “nice try, but this isn’t real.” That [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My friend Bill recently interviewed me for his site, FriendlyChristian, which is a great community he’s created for Christians and atheists alike. Bill is a stellar guy with a great blog, but many of you already know that because you only read my blog because he links to it. Our interview is posted [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Yes, that Lois Lowry book you probably read in fourth grade. It’s about a utopian society where there is no pain or suffering, but also no great joy or love– for everyone except the Receiver, the one member of society who knows the full breadth of human experience. Having Received the memories of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged friendship on December 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I miss my Christian friends, so let’s just get over ourselves.
One of the best friends I’ve ever had was an agnostic while I was a Christian. I was on fire for God in those days, and we talked about our respective beliefs often and told each other all about our spiritual lives. We [...]
Posted in Christianity, Uncategorized on November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I read things on Christianity Today quite frequently (old habits). This is the best thing I’ve read in awhile. The author is writing about his daughter, who had leukemia and lived because of blood transfusions:
I asked, Why, God? Why is this happening to her? She loves You so much. Where are You?
Then I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I just finished reading Carl Sagan’s The Varieties of Scientific Experience. A great book, it really wonderfully and subtly explains the religious impulse and gives some insight into origins of organized religion, while firming up atheism for me. I haven’t been able to find any Christian responses to the book, but I’m really [...]
Posted in Christianity, Wheaton College, atheism, tagged frustration on November 13, 2007 | 24 Comments »
I’m writing our of anger and frustration lately, so I won’t be as nice or eloquent as usual. Throw me a frickin bone.
I have a fair number of unflattering opinions regarding Christians in general and some Christians in particular. However, I don’t say it to their faces. I won’t even say it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I was hoping that this blog could be a place where I could be honest, but that no longer seems possible. Maybe the internet is just not the right place for honesty. For an atheist at Wheaton, there is apparently no place for honesty. I guess I should have known that from [...]
