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Graceful Atheist Podcast

by David Ames

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  • Matt Sanderson on Spirituality Without the Supernatural, Wonder, and Meaning After Faith

    October 12, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    Matt Sanderson is the author of I Wonder: Notes on Spirituality without the Supernatural. My conversation with Matt is poignant and vulnerable touching on his loss of faith, the loss of his mother and his search for meaning without dogma…

  • Stella McCormick: Surviving a Single Family Cult

    September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    Author Stella McCormick has written a powerful memoir, Deliver Us From Mother: Faith, Fear, and the Family Cult That Broke Me. The story she tells in the book and shares with us on the podcast is one of surviving a single family cult…

  • Clearly Written By Boys

    August 10, 2026 · 38 min

    Karis Burkowski and ​David Fitzgerald have written an amazing book called Clearly Written by Boys: A Woman’s Guide to the Bible. The book takes this question seriously: What if women mattered, really mattered, to the authors that wrote our…

  • Steve Ghikadis: Humanism From the Heart

    July 20, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    Steve Ghikadis is the author of Humanism From the Heart: Building Bridges Beyond Belief. Steve Ghikadis is a Humanist Officiant, who conducts secular marriages, memorials, and many more meaningful life-affirming celebrations. Raised as a…

  • Julia: Deconstructing JWs and Suburbia

    June 29, 2026 · 52 min

    Julia tells her story of deconstructing the Jehovah's Witnesses and the expected life of suburbia. Julia was torn between two grandmothers: an evangelical and a Jehovah's Witness. She became a Jehovah's Witness and was all in. She got…

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  • Humanism and AI

    June 7, 2026 · 48 min

    The Consciousness DelusionIn this solo episode I discuss Artificial Intelligence. Should we agree with Richard Dawkins that Claude is conscious? Probably not, for several reasons. I talk about how LLMs work, why I don't think they are…

  • Liam: A friend and a Friend

    May 24, 2026 · 59 min

    Liam is a friend and a colleague of many years. He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends often called Quakers. Liam and I have shared deep conversations before and after my deconversion. I respect the way Liam holds and lives out…

  • Doubt is Antimemetic

    May 4, 2026 · 37 min

    I recently read Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading by Nadia Asparouhova and it blew my mind. Just reading the intro I knew I needed to do an episode on the subject. Almost everything about deconstruction and deconversion is…

  • Friends and Family: Mark Anthony Diaz

    April 20, 2026 · 51 min

    Mark Anthony Diaz is the author of Reedkeeper's Journey and one of my best friends. Mark and I grew up together. We had the same sarcastic friend group in high school. We did ministry together. Crucially, Mark stuck with me after my…

  • Colin Ryan: Epic Tiny Victories

    March 30, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    Welcome back Colin Ryan, author, storyteller, comedian and survivor of Bipolar 2, OCD and ADHD. Colin has written Epic Tiny Victories: A hopeful story about depression anxiety and reframing your life. It is hilarious, honest and poignant…

  • 10 Year Deconversion Anniversary

    March 9, 2026 · 57 min

    Reflections on ten years of deconversion. I re-tell my deconversion story and reflect on what has changed and what has stayed the same. Links Apostate: Stories of Deconversion https://amzn.to/4rj7TA6 Interact For quotes…

  • Matthew Taylor: Why We Podcast

    December 30, 2023 · 1 hr 8 min

    Mathew Taylor, co-host of Still Unbelievable!, returns to the podcast to discuss why we podcast.Links Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vteclimey Confessions of a YEC blog: https://confessionsofayec.wordpress.com/ "God…

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About the show

A secular humanist podcast about Secular Grace after deconstruction and deconversion. The podcast takes an honest look at stories of faith transition from a life-altering faith, to doubt and deconstruction, to deconversion, and finally, to a thriving graceful life post-deconversion. My name is David, and I am trying to be the Graceful Atheist. Join me and be graceful human beings. https://gracefulatheist.com/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/gracefulatheist