You’ll be pleased to know that this is the year when we all come to terms with death.
I know you’re excited, because we’ve decided to abandon the delusion that it won’t happen to us! In a few days, we’ll stop pretending...
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Tim Mathis
- 8 min
New Zealand Is a Force That Makes Us Dirtbags
Aotearoa New Zealand has a way of making you care less about things, and more about the outdoors.
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Tim Mathis
- 7 min
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...
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Tim Mathis
- 6 min
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.
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Tim Mathis
- 6 min
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.
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Tim Mathis
- 6 min
I Hope I Was Wrong About Eternal Damnation: A free preview
A free preview of a funny book about losing faith in God.
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Tim Mathis
- 7 min
What is a Dirtbag? An excerpt from "The Dirtbag's Guide to Life"
This is an excerpt from the introduction to The Dirtbag's Guide to Life. Other people have defined the term - I'm not the first - but I...
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Tim Mathis
- 5 min
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.
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Tim Mathis
- 5 min
Stating your intentions is the first step: Birthing Travel, the PCT, and the dream life
The first step on the Pacific Crest Trail, for me, happened on the internet. Big life decisions are like that.
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Tim Mathis
- 5 min
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.
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Tim Mathis
- 6 min
The Lower Hudson: A paddling gem hidden in plain sight
The Lower Hudson, Between Albany and NYC, is a criminally under-appreciated and accessible multi-day paddle.
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Tim Mathis
- 13 min
How to discover island paradise on the cheap in New Caledonia.
New Caledonia. Never heard of it? Here's why you shouldn't overlook this Melanesian dot on the map in the middle of the Pacific.
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Tim Mathis
- 11 min
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.
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Tim Mathis
- 10 min
The Camino de Finisterre in a day: An ultra running love story.
Running the Camino de Finisterre was both pure suffering and real pilgrimage.
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Tim Mathis
- 7 min
El Camino de Santiago with just the clothes on your back.
A Camino de Santiago packing list as an illustration of why it's such an amazing adventure.
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Tim Mathis
- 5 min
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.
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Tim Mathis
- 7 min
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.
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Tim Mathis
- 8 min
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.
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Tim Mathis
- 17 min
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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Tim Mathis
- 12 min
The Veracruz travel guide the internet needs, but was afraid to ask for.
On my first visit, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to fall in love with Veracruz, and I did. After falling in love, I learned that the...
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