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December 2024

December 17, 2024

Complex Simplicity – A Book Review

In a previous article, I reviewed research which suggested that, despite the reputation Christians have...

November 2024

November 29, 2024

Devout: a Book Review

The 2024 book Devout by first-time published author Anna Gazmarian is an autobiography exploring her...

November 21, 2024

Book Review: Deconstructing, Leaving Church, Finding Faith

Published in October of this year, Deconstructing: Leaving the Church and Finding Faith is a...

September 2024

September 13, 2024

Consequences of Ideas: Philosophy and Deconversion

Introduction The purpose of this article is to examine the 2000 book The Consequences of...

August 2024

August 06, 2024

Deconversion in the Ancient World: The Research

As a deconversion researcher, it is becoming ever more apparent that culture and time period...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

Book Review: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse

Deconversion and Abuse Several years ago when I published my initial model of deconversion, one...

July 22, 2024

Book Review: The Deconstruction of Christianity

Like so many of the books written in recent years on the topic of the...

July 15, 2024

A Brief History of Counter-Christian Movements

The movement most prominently embattled against Christianity in the United States has been labeled the...

July 09, 2024

Conversion, Deconversion, and Initiation Ceremonies

Conversion Within Christianity, there is a theological and social concept called “conversion.” In the mind...

March 2024

March 28, 2024

Craving Confidence: A Simple Model to Explain Deconversion

How Human Attitudes Form Versus How We Think They Form I am a researcher whose primary...

January 2024

January 12, 2024

Introducing Atheist Arguments to New Eyes: The Research

Atheism: A Relatively New Phenomenon The specter of atheism has always hovered at the edge...

December 2023

December 11, 2023

When Women Deconvert: The Research

The History of Religious Research While religious movement (people entering religious communities, switching religious communities,...

December 06, 2023

Has Belief in God Undergone a Renaissance? Reviewing the Thesis of Justin Brierley

The book The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God by Justin Brierley is hot off...

December 01, 2023

The Research behind Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse, and Church Hurt

A subject I have addressed in previous articles is the concept of “Religious Trauma,” also...

November 2023

November 24, 2023

Atheist Police Officer Comes to Christ After Investigation

Jim Wallace likes to brag that, for roughly half a century now, if you called...

November 14, 2023

When Teens Deconvert: What the Research Says

The Teenage Exodus It is an established fact that the teenage years are a time...

November 03, 2023

Deconversion Stories: The Camel with the Hammer

Dr. Daniel Fincke has his PhD in philosophy from Fordham University and spent 11 years...

October 2023

October 23, 2023

Does Autism Contribute to Atheism?

In a previous article, I reviewed Paul C. Vitz’s book Faith of the Fatherless which...

October 16, 2023

“Faith of the Fatherless”: Do Fathers Make or Break a Person’s Faith?

Of Fathers and God Author, speaker, and former counselor Debbie W. Wilson writes about an...

October 09, 2023

The Academic Link Between Deconversion and Anger Toward God

The very public conflict around atheism and religion was at its height during the 2010s,...

October 02, 2023

Reality Check: When Deconverts Feel the Sting of Discrimination

In 2020, the American Atheist Society [AAS] released the results of an online survey they...

September 2023

September 25, 2023

Can Parent and Peer Relationships Affect Deconversion?

Two important studies have been released within the last several years, the topic of which...

September 18, 2023

Crossing Over: A Case Study in Converting Between Religions

Cross-Conversion Conversion studies began in the 19th century in a very religious culture. As a...

September 11, 2023

Vander Elst: The British Atheist Who Converted Because of the Problem of Evil

Philip Vander Elst is a freelance writer and lecturer who works primarily in the fields...

September 04, 2023

Interview With a Reconvert

The Importance of Reconversion As under-studied as deconversion is, the matter of re-conversion is practically...

August 2023

August 28, 2023

The Anatomy of Deconversion: A Book Review

John Marriott is far from the first researcher to look into the process of deconversion,...

August 21, 2023

Deconversion Stories: A Charismatic Preacher Becomes an Atheist Outreacher

Dan Barker is an itinerate and outspoken atheist, whose life is so entangled with his...

August 14, 2023

When Atheists Convert: The Renaissance Scholar Becomes a Christian Scholar

John Warwick Montgomery is a renaissance scholar and a true renaissance man; having made a...

August 07, 2023

A Return to Rambo: Testing the most Famous Model of Religious Conversion

Religious Conversion: The Standard Model This column has covered the famous and influential model of...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

Deconversion Stories: Billy Graham’s Partner in Evangelism

Canadian evangelist Charles Templeton professed salvation in 1936, when he was 21. So energized was...