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A Few Thoughts About Mental Illness and Depression
Bruce and his mom, July 1957 Originally written 2011, edited, corrected. At the age of fifty-four, my mother turned a .357 magnum Ruger revolver toward her chest and pulled the trigger. The bullet...
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The Preacher Boy and the Pastor’s Daughter
Updated, corrected, and expanded It seems like yesterday . . . The early days of Fall have arrived and the young preacher boy busily loads his possessions into a dilapidated, rusty Plymouth. It’s time...
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Leaving Christianity: Why I Was an Old Man Before I Deconverted
Bruce Gerencser, 2021 I am often asked why it took me so long to deconvert. Some people suggest that I must have really been stupid to have spent most of my life believing in a God that doesn’t exist....
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Life in the Ministry: Fifteen Years of Marriage and Not One ‘Just the Two of...
Bruce and Polly Gerencser, Sweetheart Banquet, 1985 A few months after our first wedding anniversary, Polly and I packed up all of our worldly goods into a late-60s Chey Impala and an AMC Gremlin that...
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Evangelical Pastor Questions Whether I Preached the “Real” Jesus
Repost from 2015-2016. Edited, updated, and corrected. Regardless of what I do to ward off bloodsucking Evangelical vampires, they continue to send me emails detailing their opinions about my past and...
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How Do Evangelical Christians Explain My Life?
Rather than asking each of my Evangelical critics to “explain” my life, I thought I’d let the inspired, inerrant, infallible Word of God answer for them: Little children, it is the last time: and as...
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