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From Evangelicalism to Atheism Part Four
Creamery Road, Zanesville, Ohio In 1995, after two short stints pastoring Community Baptist Church in Elmendorf, Texas and Olive Branch Christian Union Church in Fayette, Ohio, I started Grace Baptist...
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Beyond An Absence of Faith
Beyond An Absence of Faith: Stories About the Loss of Faith and Discovery of Self, edited by Jonathan M.S. Pearce and Tristan Vick, is an anthology of deconversion stories, including my own. In the...
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Family Driven Faith Part Three
Bruce and Polly Gerencser, 2013 The article was first published in 2012 on No Longer Quivering Corrected, revised, and updated Eleven years have passed since I preached my last sermon and Polly was...
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The Midwestern Baptist College Preacher Who Became an Atheist
Freshman class, Midwestern Baptist College, Pontiac, Michigan 1976, Polly is first row on the left, Bruce is third row, eighth from the left. From 1976-1979, I attended Midwestern Baptist College , an...
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Dear Family and Friends: Why I Can’t and Won’t Go to Church
To those who call me Bruce, Butch, Dad, or Grandpa: In November 2008, Polly and I attended church for the last time. Since then, I have walked through the doors of a church three times, once for a...
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The Intractability of Christian Fundamentalists
If you have not read Are Evangelicals Fundamentalists? please do so. This will help you understand my use of the word fundamentalist. Thanks to this blog, Facebook, Twitter, and breathing air, I come...
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Please Help Me Understand Why You Stopped Believing
A former parishioner asks: I just don’t understand how you could just decide you don’t believe any longer. I as you know am a Christian and I could never or would never lose my faith in God, but if I...
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Question: Was My Deconversion Gradual or Instantaneous?
Several weeks back, I asked readers to submit questions they would like me to answer. If you would like to ask a question, please leave your question here. Suzanne asked: What was the thing or moment...
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You Never Were a Christian
One of the ways that Evangelicals dismiss my life and current beliefs is to say that I never was a Christian, I was a false Christian, or I was Christian in name only. I thought Christians have been...
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What Motivated Me to Work so Hard for Jesus
It all started with my belief that the Bible was the inspired, inerrant Word of God. I considered the Bible the road map for navigating through a Satan dominated. sin plagued world. The Bible taught...
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Leaving the Ministry: Dealing with Guilt and Regret
A friend of mine, a former devoted, committed Evangelical pastor’s wife, wrote me recently and asked: I’ve been struggling a lot lately. re: all the wasted years, harm my kids experienced, folks I...
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Bruce, the Pornographer: Why I Really Left the Christian Faith
Evangelical Christian apologist William Lane Craig writes, in response to a question about doubt: …..Be on guard for Satan’s deceptions. Never lose sight of the fact that you are involved in a...
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How Do Christians Explain My Life?
Rather than asking each Evangelical to “explain” my life, I thought I’d let the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God answer for them: Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard...
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Atheists Talk: Radio Interview on Sunday June 28, 2015
This Sunday, I am scheduled to be interviewed on Atheists Talk, a program broadcast on AM950, the Progressive Voice of Minnesota. The program, a production of Minnesota Atheists, is one hour-long and...
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Atheists Talk Interview, Sunday, June 28, 2015
Here’s my interview with Atheists Talk, a program broadcast Sundays on AM950, the Progressive Voice of Minnesota. The program is a production of Minnesota Atheists. Thanks to Scott Lohman for having...
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Alone
Graphic by David Hayward, The Naked Pastor From your earliest recollection you remember the church. You remember the preacher, the piano player, the deacons, and your Sunday School teacher. You...
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16 Reasons Why I am Not a Christian
Eight years of answering questions about WHY I stopped believing in the existence of God and some readers still can’t understand why I am no longer a Christian. I even wrote two posts answering the...
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Bruce Gerencser CLAIMS He Once Was a Christian
I have been blogging since 2007. When I started blogging, I was an Emerging church, red-letter Christian who, along with his wife, was desperately seeking for a church that took the teachings of Jesus...
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An IFB Pastor’s Passive-Aggressive Response to a Doubting Church Member
IFB Preacher Phil Kidd A regular reader of this blog, a former Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) church member and preacher, who trained for the ministry at Clarence Sexton’s The Crown College,...
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Questions for Polly
Polly 2015 Two years ago, I asked readers to submit questions they would like Polly to answer. What follows are her answers. If you would like to ask new questions or follow-up questions, please leave...
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