The New Center for Non-Religious spirituality
There are three things you might find useful for your journey: My unpublished book, 'How to Have a Great Day Without Religion' My 'Life...
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LIFE is my religion
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Finding True happiness: Jim Palmer Mini-Course
All people want to be happy but not everyone is. Most people are not happy because their fundamental framework for seeking happiness is...
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Depression is not a spiritual problem
In Divine Nobodies there is a chapter in which I share about my journey with depression. Perhaps no chapter in any book I’ve written has...
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Exploring Non-Theist Spirituality Group
Are there better answers to life's greatest existential questions than what is found in religion? Who gets to decide the definition of...
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Finding Jesus (2,000 years later)
Jesus Perhaps no person in history has been the subject of so much controversy and debate. It began two thousand years ago, when...
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Overcoming Religious Shame with Self-Acceptance
If you must have something to aspire to on your path, make it that you will no longer sit in judgment of yourself. Self-judgment is...
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Life After Religion (Deconstruction Deep Dive)
I've been a spiritual director for over fifteen years. In that time I have done a lot of toxic religion recovery work with people through...
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Untangling the "God relationship" problem
Shedding religion is typically a volatile but liberating experience. Many of the religious beliefs and practices that people leave behind...
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Did Christianity get Jesus right?
In a previous post I sorted out the question on why I speak of Jesus depite no longer considering myself a "Christian." There is an...
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Should the Bible be written off?
Does shedding religion mean discarding the Bible? Curious about my spiritual life outside of organized religion, people often ask me if I...
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The Journey of Shedding Religion
Many people contact me who are experiencing a crisis of faith, deconstructing their long-held theological beliefs, going through a...
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Is Heaven real? And if so, how?
Why is heaven such a cherished idea? I don't think it's terribly complicated. The two things we fear most - death and suffering - are...
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Reimagining Spiritual Direction
I wonder how many sleepless nights you've had, wrestling with the question of whether the practice of spiritual direction will ever be...
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37 ways you know you're shedding religion
Over the years in my spiritual direction practice, people have shared with me their experiences of breaking free from a damaging or toxic...
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The Human(ism) Side of Spirituality
I recently gave a presentation to a group on the subject of humanism and spirituality. The American Humanist Association describes...
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