Author name: Roger Curley

If you were indoctrinated with 5 or more of the below toxic lies, you have likely been impacted by religious trauma. Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS) is a psychological trauma that can result from harmful religious experiences, such as abuse, indoctrination, or manipulation. It can occur when someone struggles to leave a religion or set of

About ten years ago this young woman named Rachel Held Evans contacted me because she was beginning to see Christianity differently and wanted to write about it. She sent me her manuscript, and we worked on her book together. She published four books in total. I got to know her, we became friends, and I

Back in the day, Jim Palmer was a pastor at the largest church in North America. Eventually I walked away from my ministerial career and Christian religion because I no longer had faith in the beliefs and doctrines I learned in seminary. No person taught evangelical theology with the devotion and passion that I did,

“There are 8 billion people are on the planet, and about 2.5 billion of them are Christians. Christians claim to have the only-true-God connection and view themselves as the only qualified ones called to minister the truth to save humankind. They believe that privilege is theirs because they are the Bible experts. There are 45,000

by Jim Palmer I’ve come to accept that I’m a late bloomer. For a long time I carried shame about that, as if arriving late to my own life was some kind of failure. But now I see it differently. Better late than never. For years I thought I was simply getting more emotional with

From the “Dear Jim” folder (emails I receive): “I was an Evangelical for 27 years of my life. What I got most out of church was: read and pray every morning, go to church every Sunday and Wednesday, tithe (one church wanted a tithe of my student loans), be republican, it’s okay to joke about

For many years I served as an evangelical megachurch pastor. I entered ministry because I genuinely wanted to help people, and I trusted the belief‑system I inherited as the right framework for doing so. It took stepping outside that system—and a great deal of honest reflection— to recognize how many of those beliefs were harming

I am an unbeliever in a “God” who is an external, superior, and separate being who must be pleased, obeyed, or reconciled with. I am an unbeliever in a “God” shrouded in maleness, establishing the foundation for the dominance of patriarchy. I am an unbeliever in a religious “God” who offers love that is conditional,