Category: Christianity

• August 20, 2022

  Buddha, Christ, and You

  

  At the Philosophers’ Garden in Budapest, I was pleasantly surprised to find Jesus Christ and the Buddha standing beside each other. It seemed fitting to me, since at the time I was reading the book, “Living Buddha, Living Christ” by Thich Nhat Hanh. The book enthralled me. I knew that some similarities existed between Buddhism […]
• August 16, 2022

  Leaving Christianity – Outro

  

  The “Leaving Christianity” series was a way for me to personally process, then publicly share, my experience of deconstructing my fundamentalist Christian beliefs and finally walking away from them altogether. Even in this series, I feel like I have barely begun to explain the many questions, answers, and ideas that led to me leaving Christianity, […]
• August 15, 2022

  Why I Left Christianity: Sexuality [Guest Post by Laura Lanier]

  

  Leaving Christianity – Part Nine Today’s guest post is written by my sister, Laura Lanier, who also deconstructed her Christian belief system as I did. Here she is speaking from her own experience and knowledge, but it closely echoes mine. I’m sure that there are many others who will relate to what she has to […]