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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...

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...

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...

November 2023

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...

August 2023

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...

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...

July 03, 2023

Deconversion Stories: Bart Ehrman

Bart Ehrman is arguably the best-known and best-respected Bible scholar of the modern era. He...

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 12, 2023

A Recent String of Ads About “Religious Trauma Syndrome”

The Ads An ad pops up on your social media. It features a woman sitting...

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 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...

March 2023

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...

February 2023

February 20, 2023

Rapture Anxiety and Deconversion

A significant portion of my initial investigation into deconversion involved listening to interviews and reading...

February 06, 2023

The son of a Famous Evangelist who Became a Convinced Atheist

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

January 2023

January 30, 2023

Research into Religious Deconversion Flourishes in the Post Christian West

A Brief History of Conversion Research Ever since William James’ landmark study, A Variety of...

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...

January 09, 2023

Deconversion and “Cuss-Words”

Thirty or forty years ago, investigating the phenomenon of religious deconversion would have been a...

January 02, 2023

Brian McLaren and Faith After Doubt

The book "Faith After Doubt" was authored by Brian McLaren, and released in the year...

December 2022

December 12, 2022

Deconversion and “Selective Perception”

In 2019, researchers Perez and Vallieres conducted an in-depth study on the subject of deconversion....

December 05, 2022

Deconversion and “Religious Trauma Syndrome”

WHAT IS RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME? There is a phenomenon known as "Religious Trauma Syndrome" (RTS)...

November 2022

November 28, 2022

“A Manual for Making Atheists”: an Imperfect Book but an Effective Movement

Peter Boghossian is a philosopher and college professor who is responsible for inventing the practice...

November 21, 2022

Ridicule and Deconversion

In his March 24th talk at the 2012 Reason Rally, popular atheist speaker Richard Dawkins...

November 14, 2022

Deconversion and the Term “Deconstruction”

I began looking onto deconversion as a journalist. I wanted to look at stories of...