Welcome to The Clergy Project
Are you a religious professional who no longer believes in any God or gods?
Have you remained in vocational ministry, secretly hiding away your non-belief?
Are you struggling over where to go from here with your life and career?
- Maybe you’ve been out for some time, out of the ministry and maybe even publicly out as a non-believer…
- Maybe you’ve found that the challenges continue to come with your new life and you’re in need of some good community with people who understand the issues you face…
- Maybe you’d simply love to connect with other religious professionals who have likewise left belief behind…
If this is you, we invite you to join The Clergy Project!
The Clergy Project was launched in March 2011 to create a safe and secure Online Community of Forums composed entirely of religious leaders who no longer hold to supernatural beliefs. Many of our project participants have deep privacy concerns, and for that reason, we place your security among our top tier of priorities. Identify yourself with a pseudonym and an avatar image if you prefer. And our private-access website is held secure with air-tight features to make sure your anonymity is in the best of hands.
In our Online Community of Forums, participants come from a wide range of religious and cultural backgrounds, including Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Scientology, and more than thirty different segments of Christianity. Our participants reside in forty-nine states in the USA and more than fifty different countries around the globe. We come from varied perspectives of culture and lifestyle. Approximately one-fourth of Clergy Project participants are currently employed in their religious vocation with approximately three-fourths having transitioned out.
In The Clergy Project’s Online Community, forum discussion includes everything from practical concerns like finding a new career path and discerning when and how to come out as a non-believer to one’s spouse to more philosophical conversations centered on ethics and humanism. Services are also available to participants regarding career development and the opportunity for subsidized counseling sessions offered through The Secular Therapist Project.
Through it all The Clergy Project exists to offer you support, community, and hope. Hope for a better day, for a next chapter far surpassing anything the previous could have offered. So welcome. Welcome to The Clergy Project.
Just wanted to share a post from fellow Clergy Project participant Bart Erhman’s blog. I am very privileged to be a part of The Clergy Project. As the death of religion continues to accelerate, the need to support and encourage religious leaders who no longer hold supernatural beliefs will only increase.
https://ehrmanblog.org/check-out-this-play-in-nyc/
“The Unbelieving”
A play based on interviews originally done by Linda LaScola, as part of a research project done with Daniel Dennett, via Tufts University, has been in the works for several years. The Clergy Project started with clergy Dan Barker met via the Freedom From Religion Foundation and clergy who contacted Linda LaScola to participate in the study. “The Unbelieving” will be opening in NYC in October. Here is the initial announcement:
https://59e59.org/shows/show-detail/the-unbelieving/
Read the stories of Project participants on the Our Stories blog.
The largest and fastest growing religion in the US isn’t a religion, it’s the absence of one. “LEAVING GOD: Why I left God and why so many others are too” explores this major cultural trend which includes The Clergy Project. As award-winning writer/director John Follis shares his story you’ll ride along on a winding, emotional and, occasionally, comical search for Truth.
Film Link: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/leaving-god
Film Trailer: https://bit.ly/3lwLfFt