About

Rick Beck­man is the work of Rick Beck­man, writ­ing from a small town in Indiana.

I’m a hus­band, a father, a for­mer Chris­t­ian fun­da­men­tal­ist, an athe­ist, a geek.

I’m an ordained cler­gy per­son in the Church of Spir­i­tu­al Human­ism, and am the founder of the small but grow­ing Sec­u­lar Now movement/community, where­in I pub­lish a series of vlogs which I invite you to view.

About This Site

Rick Beck­man is the cur­rent incar­na­tion of a long series of web­site and blog projects of mine, dat­ing back to 2001, with names like Beck­man Fam­i­ly Min­istries, Rick­’s Watch­tow­er, Watch There­fore, Tim­o­th­y’s Bur­den, Brazen­lyGeek, Brazen­ly­WP, Ex Astris, King­dom Geek, The Apolo­gia­pe­dia, The Brethren The­o­log­i­cal Insti­tute, The The­ol­o­gist, Ascend­ing Olym­pus, and who knows how many oth­ers. These sites took the form of sta­t­ic web­sites, blogs, and wikis and cov­ered per­son­al jour­nal­ing, the­ol­o­gy, Bible com­men­tary, Word­Press tips and tricks, and more.

Today, this site is Rick Beck­man, a name which appro­pri­ate­ly refers to being in a state of dis­ar­ray or con­fu­sion. More than that, though, I believe that reli­gion has the world at six­es and sev­ens, the end result of bil­lions of adults who can’t reli­ably tell fact from fic­tion, sci­ence from mythol­o­gy, moral­i­ty from holiness.

The top­ics I’ll write about here will still run the gamut of top­ics I’m inter­est­ed in, and for the most part, I plan to leave my old­er posts which were writ­ten as a Chris­t­ian fun­da­men­tal­ist where they are, for any­one inter­est­ed. Any­thing writ­ten pri­or to around Fall 2010 should be assumed to be writ­ten from this fun­da­men­tal­ist perspective.