Dave Warnock was an Evangelical pastor and church leader for more than 40 years. He gradually moved away from Christianity, which came at a huge personal cost, including the breakup of his marriage, being shunned by two of his children, missing out on his grandchildren, and the loss of his entire community of friends.
Earlier this year, Dave was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), and told he had three to five years to live. Suddenly, with the awareness that life is incredibly brief, his life became infinitely more precious. Instead of succumbing to the depression, anger, and hopelessness, he decided to begin living life to the fullest. In this poignant and often funny episode, Dave talks about what it means to be “Dying Out Loud.”
Dave’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DaveWarnock.DyingOutLoud/
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E:32 Secular Addiction Recovery w/ Brian Fleming
E31: Is the Founder of Your Religion Imaginary? w/ David Fitzgerald
E30: Indoctrination. Ghosts in the Machine w/ Nate Phelps
E29: Reclaiming Your Sexuality After Religion w/ Dr. Darrel Ray
E28: The Fallacy of Sin w/ David Warnock
E27: Escaping Restrictive Gender Roles Post Religion w/ Rebecca Williams, LMFT
E26: Rock 'n' Roll Heretic: Trauma and Black Religious Respectability w/ Sikivu Hutchinson
E25: The Stigma of Nonbelief w/ Erin Louis
E:24 Religious Trauma: The Negative Impacts of Purity Culture w/ Christy Lanterman, LPC
E23: Anniversary Reflections…and Beyond
E22: The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid
E21: D-I-V-O-R-C-E from Religion with Janice Selbie
E19: Sexual Assault at Bob Jones University
E18: “Divine Currency” with Devin Singh
E17: Gender Non-Conformity in the Faith Community
E16: Leaving Mormonism…with a Song
E15: The Power of Cults
E14: Beneath the Hare Krishna Message of Peace and Higher Consciousness
E13: Religious Abuse
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