Believer Beware

Killing the Buddha

Cowboy for Christ

Gender-bending love at Bible camp. From Believer, Beware, now available as an e-book!

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Believer, Beware! Resurrected

Believer, Beware is now available for the first time as an e-book! The 2009 anthology of the best of the first incarnation of KtB features irreverent yet heartbreaking personal essays…

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Buy Buddha-killing Books!

So we’re not big on holiday themed lists at KtB, but we promise this one’s for a worthy cause: our contributors! Many of the excellent writers who have published here…

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Believers in Baltimore, Beware

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010, 7 pm – 9:00 pm The Brewer’s Art, 1106 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD What do you get when a grown-up Catholic girl, a Bible pornographer,…

"Blue mosque tourist" by Prof-B via Flickr

Revelation Road

After ditching the tour group, he’s got twenty-four hours and seven very important Turkish towns to see.

Prove 'em wrong. Buy this book.

Heretic’s Bible Still Turnin’ Heads

Publishers’ studies tell us that human eyes on the cover of a book make sales, but something more interesting is catching the eyes of the critics over at Book Cover…

Original art by Susan Morningstar

Barbershop Dharma

God-breathed, with a little off the side. A new excerpt from the KtB anthology, Believer, Beware.

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Believer, Beware in Chicago!

So a transgender cowboy, a pornographer/Bible teacher, and a nostalgic former fundamentalist walk into a bookstore. It’s not a joke; it’s what will happen at Quimby’s Saturday, November 14 at…

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Pop Matters Praises Believer, Beware

Oliver Ho gives Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, the new anthology from Killing the Buddha, a great review in Pop Matters. Every story in this collection…

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Cowboy for Christ

From Believer, Beware: Gender-bending love at Christian camp.

"I realized I could follow the progress of my fast by keeping an eye on the moon every night..."

Hunger Is God’s Food

Praise the Lord and pass the leftovers—but not before the end of Ramadan.

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Silly Beliefs

Gunther Dawn writes: In the otherwise brilliant introduction to Believer Beware, Jeff Sharlet glibly overstuffs the following Straw Man of false equivalence: “It is not enough for the new atheists…

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Jesus Is Just Alright

A crack in Kevlar cynicism reveals a time of tripped out mysterium tremendum in Southern California. A new excerpt from the new KtB collection, Believer, Beware.

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Huff Po: Believer, Beware “Gets” It

For full disclosure, let us admit that bestselling novelist and memoirist Frank Schaeffer has written one piece for Killing the Buddha, but we in no way put him up for…

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Religion from the Inside Out

Ok, it’s just an Amazon review, but it’s the who rather than the what that makes this response to our book, Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith…

A Pre-Pubescent Messiah

I Was A Pre-Pubescent Messiah

On my days of divine immortality in Queens.

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Believer, Beware in Transit

Inhaling (silent) thank, exhaling (silent) you, inhaling (silent) help, exhaling (silent) us.  I do this meditation with my back straight, hands to lap, feet to ground—centering myself in seat 54C,…

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The Answer: A Fine Evening for All

Believer, Beware has birthed into the world, with a holy wail and wicked laughter and much libation, which Merriam-Webster reminds us is “an act of pouring a liquid as a…