Who is Drew?

Drew Bekius is your Resident Heretic at Large, an energy-forward speaker, writer, and coach based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota. Having done a variety of work over the years in secular and humanist spaces, his heartbeat is for helping deconverted folks navigate life after faith. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Faith and Your Next Life Now. 

After starting an award-winning interfaith ministry at the age of 16, Drew went on to pick up a couple theological degrees and pastored two Evangelical Christian churches in the Chicago area into his mid-30s. After leaving the pastorate and becoming an atheist, he served as president of The Clergy Project, a nonprofit providing peer support, community resourcing, and career transition assistance to deconverted religious leaders in 35+ countries around the world. 

Drew’s previous work has included over a decade’s worth of writing and blogging for websites such as his own HumanistCoach.com. His coaching work has focused on values alignment and post-faith lifestyle navigation, along with confidence work and speaker coaching, along with consultation in community-building. Drew has served on staff as lead speaker coach for TEDxMinneapolis where his team helped further change by preparing Twin Cities thought leaders for sharing their “local ideas worth spreading.”

In addition to speaking and doing workshops with various humanist communities around the United States, Drew also spent several years teaching and serving on the board at First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, the nontheistic religious community known as “The Birthplace of Congregational Humanism,” where back in 1917 a non-theistic minister named John Dietrich kickstarted the controversial new movement that he dubbed… humanism!

Currently, Drew’s speaking and coaching projects focus on post-faith lifestyle navigation, values alignment, and the development of an Embodied Humanism.

Drew has a Master of Divinity degree from Moody Theological Seminary, a Bachelor of Arts in pastoral studies from Moody Bible Institute, personal and business coaching certificates from Life Purpose Institute, and a Humanist Celebrant endorsement from The Humanist Society. He is a member of the American Humanist Association, Freedom From Religion Foundation, Unitarian-Universalist Association, and The Loft Literary Center. Drew has two adult daughters. He and his wife Stacie “Apostacie” Marie jump back and forth between homes in Minnesota and the Okanagan in BC, Canada.  

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