Seventh-day Atheist Podcast

Ami and Abby read a sobering feedback email and offer support to a college student who is not quite ready to be on her own, but who finds her family's aggressive religiosity unbearable.

Ami and Abby read from Adventist mailings, including articles about baptizing people through Facebook, making friends in order to convert them, and "aggressive service."

Abby, Ami, and Jim talk about Adventist summer camp as both campers and staff.

Ami and Abby respond to a couple of feedback emails. Topics include dealing with Adventist family and working with Adventist school children when you're not actually an Adventist. Abby mentioned a documentary about a doomsday cult that she watched recently. It's called "Apocalypse Later: Harold Camping vs The End of the World," available on Amazon if you're interested.

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Abby's home! Ami and Abby talk about the last 4 months, the Emoji Bible, C.S. Lewis, and anything else that occurs to them.

Ami and Misty loved C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy as young Christians. Now, they review the books as adult atheists.

Ami and Misty read choice bits from non-Adventist religious mailings, including the anti-Adventist Proclamation Magazine.

Alex and Ryan talk about playing games as Adventist kids, particularly video games.

From time to time, we get questions from well-meaning people that go something like this: "We understand why you are frustrated with the Seventh-Day Adventist church, but we can't understand why you're not Christians anymore. Why don't you believe in the Bible? Even if you're not Seventh-Day Adventists, isn't the Bible still a good and useful source of truth and wisdom?" In this episode, Ami and Misty respond to that question.

It's our hundredth episode, guys! Can you believe we're still doing this? Abby and Ami reminisce about the podcast. They also talk about an article in a (newish?) publication, Adventist Today, called "It is OK to be a Cultural Adventist."

Ami and Misty talk about friendships with people who are still religious or who have become religious over the course of the friendship. What role do we play for those friends? What role do they play for us? How can we be kind to people we care about while remaining true to ourselves when they talk about their faith?

Ami and Misty interview Ami's daughter, Alice - a young teen who's been raised very differently from her parents. They talk about what it's like to be an atheist kid in a Christian culture and awkward interacts with grandparents and other kids.

Alex and Ryan talk about how their love of sports interacted with - and occasionally mirrored - their feelings about religion.

Abby and Ami respond to listener feedback, talk about crazy fundamentalists, and discuss the merits of a Great Controversy cartoon.

Mistie reviews the ABC romance "Heaven Sent" by Amanda Bews, and then she and Amy talk about it.

Ami, Misty, and a couple of brave guests talk about the experience of being homeschooled and the impact this had on their early social experiences and later attempts to make friends.

Ami, Misty, Stephanie, and Josh talk about dancing - SDAP attitudes towards dancing, learning to dance, and uncomfortable relationships with our bodies. Listen through the outro for a little chatter outtake directed at Abby. My friends miss me!! Awww...

Ami, Misty, and Rena talk about fringe-Adventist. These are the people that even Adventists thought were crazy! Somehow, most mainstream Adventists seem to have had experiences with them.

Ami, Misty, and Ryan read from SDA mailings. The latest offerings from the NAD include a guide to active shooter drills in church. Curiously, there is no mention of all the concealed-carry weapons sure to be available...