Recovering from Religion
In this session Teri and Ryan will explain the beliefs that the Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) hold and their personal "coming out of religion" stories. We'll discuss the history of the Seventh-Day Adventists, their practices and the struggles faced by those who leave.
Year without God Blog
Ryan Bell is a writer, speaker, and consultant on the topic of religion, irreligion and humanism in America. In January 2014, Ryan began a yearlong journey exploring the limits of theism and the atheist landscape in the United States and blogged about that experience here at Year Without God. In 2015 Ryan founded the organization, Life After God, with the purpose of supporting those going through a faith transition by providing resources and creating community. He is also the host of the Life After God podcast, which explores the space between belief and unbelief with a different guest each week.
Graceful Atheist Podcast
This week's guest is Cat Delmar. Cat grew up in a nominally Seventh-day Adventist family. The SDA churches, however, were anything but nominal. They had all the rules, from no caffeine to no pierced ears. "There's a lot of control of the body [in Seventh-Day Adventism]." At sixteen, Cat took ownership of her faith and started going to church on her own, but she never quite fit in. By her twenties, she realized that the difficult questions in adulthood don't have easy "Biblical" answers. Before she knew it, she's figured out that the SDA church doesn't have the answers and that perhaps no one does. Today, Cat doesn't need solid answers. She finds peace within herself and in her connection with nature. Cat's story is one you'll want to hear!
Podchaser
151 episodes. Two ladies and their friends talk about their experiences growing up Adventist and leaving the church. They discuss both positive and negative experiences with irreverent humor and complex perspectives.
Silent Gays
Silent Gays is an independent service that: directly addresses the abuses of religion and "gay conversion therapy" (aka "reparative therapy" or "pray away the gay") helps you to live with integrity and personal honesty provides safe spaces for you to look directly at the damage caused to you by church abuse and Christian doctrine, revealingContinue reading →
