The Examined Life: William Lobdell’s Losing My Religion

One of the biggest surprises about William Lobdell’s book Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion—and Found Unexpected Peace is the respectful tone he maintains toward not only religious people in general, but Christians in particular. Given the book’s title—and considering some of my own experiences, I half-expected the author to [...]

Since Jack Chick Can’t Possibly Have the Time to Condemn Us All to Hell…

Surely you all remember Jack Chick, the comic book guy who took the world by storm in the seventies and eighties? The one who wrote tracts and books about religion, scared the hell out of little kids, and denigrated people from just about every demographic other than his own? Not sure what Jack’s demographic would [...]