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The middle of the night can be the worst time. Lying in darkness, questioning everything you were taught to believe as sacred truth, feeling the weight of generational expectations pressing down while your mind rebels against doctrines that no longer make sense. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone in… Read More "The Anxiety of Awakening: From Religious Programming to Spiritual Freedom"
The phenomenon of questioning inherited beliefs has become a defining characteristic of American religious and cultural life in the 2020s. This is what scholars now call “deconstruction”. From Generation X navigating midlife reassessment and Xennials finding unstable ground to meet their reality, to Millennials reshaping spirituality on their own terms,… Read More "The Rapid Rise of Deconversion"
How We Lose Our Old World Nobody sets out dreaming of a faith crisis. Most who arrive at deconstruction aren’t thrill-seekers or rebels on the run, but sincere, thoughtful people who once staked their hopes on a system they believed led to life’s richest meaning. That’s how it arrived for… Read More "Deconstruction: What it Means when questioning religion"
How do you know if you’re stuck in a cage when the cage is all you’ve ever known? There’s a scene in the movie, The Shawshank Redemption where Red, the older and wiser inmate, explains to the younger men why someone might resist freedom after decades behind bars: “These walls are… Read More "How Do You Know If You are in a Cage?"
What does it mean to be Non-Theistic? Non-theism is a wide-open view of existence without constraints. It’s the place where a solitary human intersects with a vast universe stretching across time and space. It clears away boundaries and boxes so the soul can express connection without being defined by what… Read More "What is a Non-theist? Is that a thing?"
