Going on a pilgrimage is not a strange thing to do.
Outside of the secular, English-speaking world, pilgrimage is still a central feature of life for billions of modern people.
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Tim Mathis
28 min read
Running the Camino de Santiago, or A Poor Excuse for a Religious Pilgrim
Running the Camino de Santiago isn't the most obvious way to process when you're leaving behind religion, but it works.
Tim Mathis
13 min read
Travel is my church: Using ritual to turn your trip into a pilgrimage (Go on, make it weird!)
I know "ritual" can seem creepy, but embrace it. Do odd things. Watch your trip become life-changing.
Tim Mathis
13 min read
This year I decided to become a writer
A lot of tragic creative stories go something like this: “I always loved writing/painting/singing/sculpture but no one believed in me and...
Tim Mathis
8 min read
Kurangaituku: The case to make a surreal Maori myth the next book you read.
Kuragnaituku is the best book you almost definitely haven't heard of (yet).
Tim Mathis
16 min read
Seattle music history, by way of artists that I've behaved strangely around.
It would be hard to argue that it keeps up with the London’s and the New York’s of the world, but considered purely in terms of per...
Tim Mathis
10 min read
The Hero’s Journey: Narrative therapy to write yourself out of a dark black hole.
How you can use the Hero's Journey to write your way through your problems.
Tim Mathis
7 min read
Leaving religion, playing outside: What's with the post-religious dirtbags sliding into my DMs?
Listen, I know this is strangely specific, but I keep running in to people who have left their religion and latched on to the outdoors...
Tim Mathis
6 min read
Do you really need to pay attention to the news? In defense of selectively ignoring problems.
Sometimes it's healthy to just ignore the terrible things happening in the world.
Tim Mathis
6 min read
A time capsule from a year of post-traumatic growth: How losing faith made my life better.
Top 10 things learnings from a year of post-traumatic growth.
Tim Mathis
6 min read
I Hope I Was Wrong About Eternal Damnation: A free preview
A free preview of a funny book about losing faith in God.
Tim Mathis
7 min read
What is a Dirtbag? An excerpt from "The Dirtbag's Guide to Life"
Other people have come up with definitions of "dirtbag" but I wrote the book on it so I'm staking my claim.
Tim Mathis
5 min read
Big Butter Christ Crucified: Is it okay to laugh at someone’s sincerely held beliefs?
You shouldn't laugh at people's religious beliefs, but if you were hurt by them I couldn't blame you.
Tim Mathis
5 min read
I Hope I Was Wrong About Eternal Damnation and how I feel about that.
An introduction to what I hope will be the funniest book you've read about losing faith in God.
Tim Mathis
11 min read
Why do people accept authoritarians? Lessons from the psych unit
I'm not an authoritarian, usually. But I've learned some things on the psych unit that make me worry.
Tim Mathis
10 min read
The Camino de Finisterre in a day: An ultra running love story.
Running the Camino de Finisterre was both pure suffering and real pilgrimage.
Tim Mathis
5 min read
Sufjan Stevens didn't read my book, but his stepdad liked it.
My first book only had a couple hundred readers. One of them, randomly, was my favorite musician's father.
Tim Mathis
7 min read
How Islamic punk rock helped me lose my Christian faith.
I was deconstructing when it was still called emerging church, and Islamic Punk helped me become exvangelical before it had a name.
Tim Mathis
8 min read
6 ways to support your favorite books (and also me).
I wrote this post about my own book, but the information stands as a proven list of 6 ways to support any book you love.
Tim Mathis
17 min read
Uncertainty sucks, but it's also normal. How to accept reality and move forward during crisis.
Lessons from thru-hiking, cancer, and Covid-19 about managing modern life's rolling existential crises.
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