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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...

July 2024

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...

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...

October 2023

October 16, 2023

“Faith of the Fatherless”: Do Fathers Make or Break a Person’s Faith?

Of Fathers and God Author, speaker, and former counselor Debbie W. Wilson writes about an...

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...

August 2023

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...

May 2023

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....

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 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...

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 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 09, 2023

Deconversion and “Cuss-Words”

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

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...

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)...

December 02, 2022

Study: Could Religious People Be More Complex Thinkers Than Irreligious People

Testing Thought Complexity It's a fairly common trope: religious people are knuckle-dragging uneducated troglodytes more...

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...

September 2022

September 05, 2022

The Science of Religious Conversion – A Brief History

Pre-Scientific Views on Conversion People have been practicing religion since the dawn of human history,...