Talking About God (And Other Lost Causes)

There’s an old saying that “talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”  For me, that also describes what talking about God is like.  Nothing exposes the arbitrary and ambiguous nature of our language better than the topic of God, and I find myself wanting to blow up the dictionary and create a new language.  It’s

Finding God Again, For the First Time

A reader recently posted a comment that really resonated with me, so much so that I had to write a post about it.  The comment was in response to John’s post asking readers what have been the most difficult aspects of transitioning away from Mormonism.  Here’s what reader “itscomplicated” had to say: “Feeling I’ve been ‘Catfished’

East Meets West: Science, Spirituality, and Religious Humanism

Sometimes we unexpectedly find heroes in unlikely places.  When I resigned from the LDS church in 2011, I wouldn’t have believed you if you’d told me that four years later one of my heroes would be a Hindu monk who lived from 1863-1902.  I had never heard of him, and my guess is that you

Universal Spirituality

If you’re reading this, then you and I likely have this in common: when we were growing up we were taught that we were among God’s “elect” children because we were born to parents who were members of the only true and living church on Earth.  That idea made us feel good because it made