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Craving Confidence: A Simple Model to Explain Deconversion
How Human Attitudes Form Versus How We Think They Form I am a researcher whose primary...
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 11, 2023
When Women Deconvert: The Research
The History of Religious Research While religious movement (people entering religious communities, switching religious communities,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
October 2023
October 23, 2023
Does Autism Contribute to Atheism?
In a previous article, I reviewed Paul C. Vitz’s book Faith of the Fatherless which...
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...
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,...
October 02, 2023
Reality Check: When Deconverts Feel the Sting of Discrimination
In 2020, the American Atheist Society [AAS] released the results of an online survey they...
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...
September 04, 2023
Interview With a Reconvert
The Importance of Reconversion As under-studied as deconversion is, the matter of re-conversion is practically...
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 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...
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 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 24, 2023
The Science Behind Religious Conversion
The Nature of Research When William James formed his model of religious conversion in 1902,...
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,...
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 19, 2023
How the Rise of the Internet has Altered the Religious Landscape
"Tinkering" In his 2018 study on internet and religion, researcher Paul McClure coined the word...
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...
June 05, 2023
A Brief History of Psychology: From Philosophy to Cognition
Social Psychology began within philosophy. It was assumed early in the development of psychology that...
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...
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