by Jim Stitzel | Jun 2, 2026 | General
Right after my first hospitalization and subsequent separation from my ex-wife in 2016, I made an attempt to reclaim my former faith. Up to this point, I had been a reluctant atheist, and I was still struggling through the ramifications of my lost faith, my lost sense...
by Jim Stitzel | May 13, 2026 | General
So, in publishing that thing to my blog yesterday, I kinda suddenly realized shortly after that I don’t really consider myself an atheist anymore. I’ve started to come to think of myself as some kind of spiritual changeling who’s trying to figure out its final form,...
by Jim Stitzel | May 12, 2026 | General
Trigger warning: discussion of suicidal ideation and mental health inpatient treatment I never wanted to be an atheist. It was never something that I chose. It was something that happened to me, over the course of more than a decade. The irony of this is that it was...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 9, 2026 | General
I’ve been an atheist for some time now. I can’t provide an exact span of time because there was no singular date, no specific point, at which I suddenly said, “Oh, I’m an atheist!” That’s not really how it works when you’re deconverting from religion. It’s more...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 5, 2026 | General
I blame it on my evangelical roots, but as I contemplate my own spirituality and its glacial slide toward paganism, there’s a significant portion of my mind that wants to create a distinction between a god versus a deity. I mean, I get it: deity is just another word...
