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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...

October 2023

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,...

August 2023

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...

May 2023

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 03, 2023

Philosophy and Deconversion Research

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

March 2023

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 16, 2023

The Asbury Revival and Religious Intensification Phenomenon

On February 8th, of 2023, a group of students at Asbury University, a private Christian...

January 2023

January 23, 2023

The Boy Preacher who Became an Adult Atheist Advocate: Anthony Pinn

As a column that discusses the process of religious conversion and deconversion, this space will...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

The History of Christianity’s Feud with Psychology

Introduction  It is no surprise to science that there exists a tension or distrust between...

December 19, 2022

Magnets, the Human Brain, and God

The Brain Damage You have no doubt heard it said that we still have much...

October 2022

October 31, 2022

Going off to College and Losing Faith

It has almost become a trope among Christians that sending your kids off to college...

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