Neil Carter
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And Now the Methodists…
As the church prepares for another split, deconverts like me have mixed feelings. → Read More
Faith and Reason Are Not Really Friends
Tim Keller explains why his faith prevents him from accepting the conclusions of modern science. → Read More
We Never Expected God to Make Us Happy
Preachers still don't get why people are leaving the faith. They think it's because we demand to be happy. → Read More
Trying to Love Lauren Daigle
How a single hit song captures the oxymoron that is the Christian faith. → Read More
Why the Book of Revelation is Suddenly Relevant
Want to hear an atheist's take on the book of Revelation? → Read More
Why God Can Never Be Wrong
What God's immunity to correction says about belief in him. → Read More
Why Christianity Keeps Producing Hypocrites
Denial and double standards are fundamental to a faith like this one. → Read More
What’s a Church For, Anyway?
I'm listening closely, but I'm not hearing anything that makes a real difference in the world. → Read More
How the Church Became What Jesus Hated
Evangelicals found a theology that absolves them of all social responsibility. Jesus would have some thoughts. → Read More
Outgrowing Our Religion: Are We Ready?
Becoming who you are means letting go of who others want you to be. → Read More
What I Lost When I Lost My Faith
Leaving your faith has its downsides, too. Here's a list of several things you never quite get back after the fact. → Read More
Evangelical Leaders Want Nothing to Do with Social Justice
Evangelical leaders want you to know they won't be troubling themselves with social justice. They're too busy with more important matters. → Read More
How Faith Taught Me to Distrust the Rest of the World
If you don't believe the right things about the right things, you are out of the club. → Read More
Evangelicals and the Whitewashing of Jesus
Sometimes the reason you don’t see something is because it’s about what’s NOT there than about what actually is. → Read More
How Trump's Legal Defense Mimics Christian Apologetics
There's a reason why the way Trump surrogates defend him seems so oddly familiar. → Read More
Is Monogamy Natural?
And more importantly, is that even the right question to ask? → Read More
When Bullies Think They're Victims
This past weekend as I was exiting my local movie theater, the poster for the latest installment of the God’s Not Dead franchise stopped me dead in my tracks. I just stood and stared at it for a full minute, trying to process what I was seeing. The poster features the movie’s star and producer, David … → Read More
Samson: An Evangelical Hero in the Era of Trump
If you’ve never heard of Pure Flix Entertainment then you’re really missing out. It’s the Christian alternative to Netflix, and it is an unintentionally hilarious attempt at offering a poor quality substitute for the “worldly” entertainment you find on that other channel. Besides offering straight-to-laptop streaming films for home viewing, sometimes Pure Flix sponsors full-length … → Read More
Yoga to Be Kidding Me
My problem with writing about people who crave attention is that I hate feeding their egos. People like them lack the self-awareness to see that sometimes we’re not really writing about them but about what they represent. They are simply emblems of a larger problem, and they do such a perfect job of playing into … → Read More
The Real Reason Trump Was Elected
If you’re like me, over the last few months you overdosed on political discussions, opting instead to invest more time watching videos of babies laughing and cats falling off of things. For the first time in as many years as I can remember, I didn’t even try to watch last night’s State of the Union address … → Read More