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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...

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...

July 2024

July 22, 2024

Book Review: The Deconstruction of Christianity

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

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...

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 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 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 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 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 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 16, 2023

What the Book “How Minds Change” Tells us About Deconversion

How Minds Change is a book by David McRaney in which the author, a science...

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....

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Cameron Bertuzzi and Interfaith Conversion

Cameron Bertuzzi is an influential speaker and media producer in the popular field of Christian...

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...

October 2022

October 24, 2022

Testify! The Religious Testimony Versus the Deconversion Story

CONVERSION NARRATIVES Starbuck (1866-1947) and James (1902) were pioneers in the field of Conversion studies....

October 03, 2022

Doubt and Deconversion

What is ‘Doubt’ It isn’t uncommon for a person to be skeptical toward a claim....