Recovering From Religion

Join us this week on RfRx as we continue to celebrate Pride Month! Back by popular demand, we will continue the conversation with a group of LGBTQ+ panelists discussing how they recovered and reclaimed their pride despite harmful messaging about sexuality and gender identity. We’ll talk about building community, overcoming guilt and shame, positive sexuality, resources for people who are struggling, and more. As always, bring your ...

This week on RfRx, Richard Gilliver returns to provide practical application of skeptical thinking to religious claims. Richard will tackle the accounts of the resurrection of Jesus. How can we determine whether these accounts are accurate and reliable? What should we expect from claims about historical events? Join the conversation. Bring your questions for the interactive Q&A with Richard!

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Join us this week on RfRx as we celebrate Pride Month with a panel of Recovering from Religion volunteers, plus special guests, sharing their experiences as members of the LGBTQ+ community navigating life in and out of religion. They'll discuss coming out, deconstruction, how to be an ally, LGBTQ+ resources, and - as always - they will answer your burning questions.

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Religion is not just a system of belief, but a way of organizing the decisions concerning life and death. This week on RfRx, let’s reflect on principles of humanism as we look at the practical decisions to make for the end of life. We’ll consider the nature of rituals, funeral decisions, and what is left behind.

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Some of the most intriguing episodes of the skeptically themed Oh No, Ross and Carrie podcast were those in their series concerning the pair’s undercover investigation of Scientology. Join us on the next RfRx when Ross will be our guest to fill us in on the details of this fascinating (and somewhat perilous) adventure at the church’s Pacific Area Command Base, Big Blue.

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This week on RfRx, Aron Ra will be our special guest. Join us for a wide ranging conversation on topics including atheism, humanism, skepticism, critical thinking, anthropology, science education, creationism, evolution… and snakes. We might even ask him about the anti-evolution claims Tucker Carlson made on a recent Joe Rogan Experience episode!

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Join us on RfRx this week for what will certainly be a special show! Our guest will be Shelley Segal, and we will be talking about her own recovery from religion, as well as her fascinating musical career.

Shelley is a singer/songwriter known for her secular-themed music, who has performed at many atheist/secular events including the Reason Rally and the American Humanist Association conference. Her song "Saved" is used as...

It’s fundraiser week at RfRx and we are once again collaborating with our friends from The Line. 

Join us this week for an intimate conversation with Shannon Q, Paulogia, Eve was Framed, and Aron Ra.  Don’t miss this chance to hear perspectives from some of our favorite public activists about their deconversion stories, skepticism, science, and what recovering from religion means to them.

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This week on RfRx, join us in an exploration of religious harm in Latin America. Teo El Ateo will discuss his personal experiences and provide information on religious-based harm ranging from political corruption to violent crime, accusations of witchcraft, and exorcisms. 

We’ll discuss challenges faced by people who have been harmed by religion in the Hispanic world and services that are available to help.

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This week on RfRx, author David Fitzgerald returns to present his recent scholarly findings in the field of global religious history. The presentation will cover the different evolutionary stages all religions appear to have gone through, the surprising twists and turns in the development of monotheism, how all our major religions appear to share the problem of having imaginary founders, and more. Bring your questions for the live ...

Falling in love with the right person is easy, what comes next may not be. For anyone who has ever wondered how relationships can work between the faithful and faithless, join us this week on RfRx for a peek behind the curtain. Steve Ghikadis, a secular humanist, has been married to Cindy, a Christian, for almost a decade and, like most couples, they agree on all the big things. Just not the little things...like the beginning of th...

This week on RfRx, Dr. Ben is back by popular demand to expand on his discussion of the intersections of healthcare, bias and belief. Dr. Ben will discuss the real world consequences of cognitive bias and examine common lines of reasoning which contribute to healthcare disparities. The presentation will be followed by Q&A with Dr. Ben. 

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Life is hard and finding support shouldn’t be equally difficult, but it often is. This week on RfRx, join us in discussing the potential pitfalls of mental health therapy, how education and licensure is only the start of a search, and questions to ask when starting a professional relationship.

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This week on RfRx, we discuss Mythicism, an often misunderstood position with John Gleason, The Godless Engineer. This talk will dive into an alternative explanation for Christian origins that do not involve a Jesus as a real historical figure. Minimal Mythicism takes on the burden of proof to not only provide this alternative explanation and evidence supporting it but also to explain existing evidence surrounding Christian history...

This week on RfRx, Satanic Skeptic JD Sword will join us to discuss the history of exorcism in the Catholic Church as well as some of the most famous cases of alleged demonic possession including the case of Annelise Michel (which inspired the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose), and the case of Ronald Hunkeler (which inspired The Exorcist). So please join us for some devilment this week and bring your burning questions for JD to ans...

This week on RfRx, we’ll have a conversation with Ember about how secular communities and transgender communities can support one another, unshackled from the limitations of theology. There is a lot of crossover between secular folk and the transgender community, and it isn't hard to see why. Folks in both groups generally just want to live their lives, and often share the same antagonist for doing so. Today we'll explore w...

This week on RfRx, RfR Support Group Director Rachel (Spinouette) is back by popular demand to discuss her experiences with “The Law of Attraction”. The Law of Attraction is the belief that we attract things into our lives by thinking about them. Rachel was an avid student of the practice for years before coming to the conclusion that it was total bullshit. Visualize yourself joining us for this week’s interactive episode and bring...

The poets speak of the mysteries of the heart and many religious traditions speak of the mystery of their god’s love. This week on RfRx, David Teachout joins us in a conversation about love, intimacy, and the very real, behavioral qualities that are at the heart of one of the most powerful of emotional concepts we have as human beings in connection to one another.

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This week on RfRx, former Mormon Stephanie (Contraddiction) returns to expand on her journey out of the LDS faith. In her previous talk, Stephanie mentioned her love of LDS young adult fiction. This week, she is back by popular demand to share her experience and discuss the possible impacts of religious fiction on young adult readers. Join us for a deep dive and light-hearted review of one of her childhood favorites: "Tennis S...