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November 2024

November 21, 2024
Published in October of this year, Deconstructing: Leaving the Church and Finding Faith is a...

September 2024

September 13, 2024
Introduction The purpose of this article is to examine the 2000 book The Consequences of...

August 2024

August 06, 2024
As a deconversion researcher, it is becoming ever more apparent that culture and time period...

July 2024

July 30, 2024
Deconversion and Abuse Several years ago when I published my initial model of deconversion, one...
July 22, 2024
Like so many of the books written in recent years on the topic of the...
July 15, 2024
The movement most prominently embattled against Christianity in the United States has been labeled the...
July 09, 2024
Conversion Within Christianity, there is a theological and social concept called “conversion.” In the mind...

March 2024

March 28, 2024
How Human Attitudes Form Versus How We Think They Form I am a researcher whose primary...

January 2024

January 12, 2024
Atheism: A Relatively New Phenomenon The specter of atheism has always hovered at the edge...

December 2023

December 11, 2023
The History of Religious Research While religious movement (people entering religious communities, switching religious communities,...
December 06, 2023
The book The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God by Justin Brierley is hot off...
December 01, 2023
A subject I have addressed in previous articles is the concept of “Religious Trauma,” also...

November 2023

November 24, 2023
Jim Wallace likes to brag that, for roughly half a century now, if you called...
November 14, 2023
The Teenage Exodus It is an established fact that the teenage years are a time...
November 03, 2023
Dr. Daniel Fincke has his PhD in philosophy from Fordham University and spent 11 years...

October 2023

October 23, 2023
In a previous article, I reviewed Paul C. Vitz’s book Faith of the Fatherless which...
October 16, 2023
Of Fathers and God Author, speaker, and former counselor Debbie W. Wilson writes about an...
October 09, 2023
The very public conflict around atheism and religion was at its height during the 2010s,...
October 02, 2023
In 2020, the American Atheist Society [AAS] released the results of an online survey they...

September 2023

September 25, 2023
Two important studies have been released within the last several years, the topic of which...
September 18, 2023
Cross-Conversion Conversion studies began in the 19th century in a very religious culture. As a...
September 11, 2023
Philip Vander Elst is a freelance writer and lecturer who works primarily in the fields...
September 04, 2023
The Importance of Reconversion As under-studied as deconversion is, the matter of re-conversion is practically...

August 2023

August 28, 2023
John Marriott is far from the first researcher to look into the process of deconversion,...
August 21, 2023
Dan Barker is an itinerate and outspoken atheist, whose life is so entangled with his...
August 14, 2023
John Warwick Montgomery is a renaissance scholar and a true renaissance man; having made a...
August 07, 2023
Religious Conversion: The Standard Model This column has covered the famous and influential model of...

July 2023

July 31, 2023
Canadian evangelist Charles Templeton professed salvation in 1936, when he was 21. So energized was...
July 24, 2023
The Nature of Research When William James formed his model of religious conversion in 1902,...
July 17, 2023
"William James (1901) in his famous study, Varieties of Religious Experiences, understood conversion to be a...
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