1. An Open Letter to George Perdikis

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    02/10/15
    16 mins
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    By Daniel Emery Price
    On January 21st, former Newsboys guitarist and co-founder George Perdikis wrote an article titled, “I Co-Founded One of the Most Popular Christian Rock Bands Ever… and I’m Now An Atheist” which gained quite a bit of buzz.
    An Open Letter to George Perdikis

  2. Losing that Holy Feeling

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    01/19/15
    18 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    It’s like I’m eavesdropping on the two friends and the stranger who walks with them. Something about the way they hang their heads, something about the desperation in their voices, and certainly something about the stranger, has me grasping hold of every word as if gold is spilling from their lips.
    Losing that Holy Feeling

  3. My Secret Struggle with Atheism: Seeking Answers to the Wrong Questions

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    01/03/15
    11 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    That’s what I mean when I say that I’ve struggled with atheism. And still do. The suffering me becomes the questioning me who becomes the doubting me who becoming the unbelieving me.
    My Secret Struggle with Atheism: Seeking Answers to the Wrong Questions

  4. When the Psalms Pray Me

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    12/30/14
    7 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    Yes, I pray, but it is the Spirit who prays for me, in me, through me. I no more make up my own prayers than I made up the English language.
    When the Psalms Pray Me

  5. Picking at Scabs: The Religion of Regret

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    10/14/14
    8 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    As with so many things, regret can begin as something natural, even beneficial, as you struggle to recover from a wound in your past. But over time, regret can devolve from a sadness to a sickness.
    Picking at Scabs: The Religion of Regret

  6. When Your Own Family Betrays You

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    09/09/14
    12 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    Being thrown in the pit was but one of the many smoking guns that the prosecutor could bring forth as evidence.
    When Your Own Family Betrays You

  7. The Suicide of a Friend

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    06/21/14
    13 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    There is hope and healing for you in Jesus Christ, the God who immersed Himself so deeply in our sufferings that He, too, wept over the death of a dear friend.
    The Suicide of a Friend

  8. Smut and Smug: Secret Religious Delight in Society’s Moral Degradation

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    02/24/14
    9 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    I think the chief reason that a faction within me welcomes the disintegration of the American ethos is this: it makes me feel so much better about myself. The smut makes me quite smug.
    Smut and Smug: Secret Religious Delight in Society’s Moral Degradation
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