Losing Our Religion

"I have all the defects of other people, yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable." - Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher, The Trouble With Being Born (1973) This episode is the roots of the Losing Our Religion podcast. It's conversations like this that led to the idea of recording and sharing the beautiful coming together of humans with humans. When Taylor and I first met, we had nothing in common. I had just resigned the pastorate, left everything I had known, and given up on the idea of Christianity as I knew it, and certainly institutional religion as a whole. Taylor did a great job of skeptically welcoming me into his world and life. At first with a handshake, then with a smile, then one night with a philosophical barraging of the denial of God and how stupid I was for believing in it. (He probably doesn't remember this event, or want me sharing about it.) But it happened, and I knew that night, that we'd be long time friends. Taylor About... The night he met Jim Jefferies. His short stint as a st