A 30-DAY EXPERIMENT · FROM THE FUEL PROJECT
You don't believe in God. Fine. For thirty days, live ten minutes a day as if you did — and watch what happens to you. That's the whole dare.
THIRTY DAYS · TEN MINUTES A DAY · FOUR SUNDAYS
THE DARE
No sermons to sit through, no course to enrol in. A short daily rhythm you can do before your coffee goes cold — the same one a growing number of skeptics are testing on themselves.
Talk to a God you're not sure is there. Thirty seconds counts. We give you the words for day one.
Tell him one thing you're grateful for. Specific beats grand — your legs, your coffee, the person who stayed.
A short passage of John's story of Jesus — the whole thing over thirty days. We queue it up; you just read.
One concrete act pulled from that day's reading. Text three friends you love them. Drop a judgment. Tip past the sensible line.
On the four Sundays: walk into a church near you and sit there. Even though. Especially though.
WHY WOULD YOU EVEN TRY
People who actually practice a faith — not just tick a census box — keep reporting measurably better lives. Happier, calmer, harder to knock over.
36% vs 25%
Actively religious adults who describe themselves as very happy, compared with the unaffiliated — across 26 countries.
PEW RESEARCH CENTER, 2019
5× lower
Suicide rate among people attending services weekly versus never, in a Harvard-led study following 89,000 nurses.
JAMA PSYCHIATRY, 2016
33% lower
All-cause mortality over 16 years for frequent attenders in the same long-running cohort.
JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE, 2016
Correlation? Sure, some. But the effect survives the researchers' controls, and it tracks practice, not affiliation — which is exactly what this is. Thirty days of practice, run on the only sample you actually care about: n = 1. You.
HOUSE RULES
No. The experiment is doing, not believing. Doubt is welcome the whole way — day 29 is literally dedicated to it.
There isn't one. One email address for your sign-in, so your progress survives a lost phone. No lists, no calls, no one shows up at your door.
Then you spent ten minutes a day on gratitude, reading, and doing good things for people. You'll live. But if the data above is right, that's not the likely outcome.
You walk into a church near you and sit there. Nobody will make you do anything. Yes, it counts if you stand at the back and leave during the last song.
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