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When I was in high school, I was hijacked by Christ. It wasn’t bad. My girlfriend had asked if I wanted to go to a Young Life meeting with her.  “Uh, what’s that?” “Just a bunch of singing and hanging out and doing skits and stuff.”  My family had relocated to Phoenix from Boulder, Colorado, […]

Last year I lost a dear friend I will call “Susan” when she was on a high-altitude hiking adventure. She had spent most of her life in a fundamentalist Christian religion. But in recent years she had come to realize that religion is “just a bunch of made up stories.” When she died far too […]