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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...

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 09, 2024

Conversion, Deconversion, and Initiation Ceremonies

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

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 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 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,...

July 2023

July 24, 2023

The Science Behind Religious Conversion

The Nature of Research When William James formed his model of religious conversion in 1902,...

July 17, 2023

Conversion, Deconversion, and Radical Personality Change

"William James (1901) in his famous study, Varieties of Religious Experiences, understood conversion to be a...

July 10, 2023

Atheists Finding God: the Research of Jana Harmon

A Researcher is Born In the year of 2019, the young PhD candidate, Jana Harmon,...

June 2023

June 26, 2023

Deconversion and Midlife Crisis

William James and other conversion researchers have long noted that adolescence is a time of...

June 19, 2023

How the Rise of the Internet has Altered the Religious Landscape

"Tinkering" In his 2018 study on internet and religion, researcher Paul McClure coined the word...

June 05, 2023

A Brief History of Psychology: From Philosophy to Cognition

Social Psychology began within philosophy. It was assumed early in the development of psychology that...