SamEwriter17's blog

I wrote this a long time ago to an old friend from my Christian high school who emailed me concerned about my atheism. I never sent it to her. But I have to get it out. Finally. It's really long, so feel free to tune out at any point. But thanks to all of you Progressive U people for being my sounding board as I work out the kinks from my screwed-up childhood.  Read More »

I grew up in a radical church that my dad and my pastor liked to proudly describe as "independent, fundamental, Bible-believing Baptist." I spent my entire youth desperately trying to please a jealous, holy god.  Read More »

I was still a teenage Baptist Republican in 2005 when my delayed Delta flight from London Heathrow landed back in Washington, D.C. Half a year in England had rocked my small-town perspective, and I came back in love with Britain, a blue-eyed toff from Kent named Alex, Premiership football, and the BBC.  Read More »

So...it seems that political types and all major U.S. news network have agreed to tut that Obama made a boob of himself in San Francisco. How dare he insensitively reduce small-town Americans' preoccupation with the second amendment, Moses's tablets, and border-hopping, job-stealing, welfare-sapping immigrants to our underlying frustration with the thinness of our pocketbooks?  Read More »

I, like many of the rest of you, bumbled onto this site thanks to FastWeb's helpful suggestion that the Progressive U people like giving money to kids for that opulently expensive fairytale experience called college.  Read More »