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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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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 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,...

May 2023

May 29, 2023

Deconversion and the Emergent Church

The Dawn of Deconversion Research and the Emergent Church Despite the comparative lack of research...

May 22, 2023

If Humans Have a Soul, Should Psychology be Focused on “Soul Care”?

Introduction Psychology, in terms of study and practice, began as a focused on a sort...

May 15, 2023

Five Paths to Reconcile Christianity and Psychology

In a previous article, I explained the long history of conflict that had existed between...

May 08, 2023

What Deconversion Researchers Do and Do not Know

A Rise in Atheism In the year 2000, atheism was a social curiosity in America....

May 01, 2023

Tales of Deconversion: The Crisis of a Preacher’s Wife

Currently, Cassidy McGillicuddy is a Patheos blogger who writes on the topics of video games,...

April 2023

April 24, 2023

Tales of Deconversion: The Monk Who Became an Atheist

Joseph McCabe is a man who vies for a place as perhaps the most eloquent...

April 17, 2023

Objections to Christianity by People who Deconvert: Why Language Matters

Seen in this article is a graph I created while engaged in my case study...

April 03, 2023

Philosophy and Deconversion Research

Readers of this column will be aware that I am a researcher specializing on the...

March 2023

March 27, 2023

The Religious and Atheist Experience in Autism Spectrum Disorder

“’Imagine what it's like. A person smiles at you—you're confused because you don't understand a...

March 20, 2023

Psychology and Religious Deconversion: What we Know so far

The Beginning of High Profile Deconversion In modern times, the first high-profile Christians to make...

March 13, 2023

Lone Christians: People who Exit the Church but not the Faith

Today, nearly half of America is unchurched. But even though more and more Americans are abandoning...

March 06, 2023

What Happens in the Brain When Beliefs Change?

Since the challenging and changing of beliefs is integral to the study of conversion and...

February 2023

February 27, 2023

Leftward Drift: Why Deconverts Begin at the Religious Right and Migrate to the Atheist Left

In 2009, during the height of the “New Atheism” trend, but a comfortable distance...