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July 2023

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...
July 10, 2023
A Researcher is Born In the year of 2019, the young PhD candidate, Jana Harmon,...
July 03, 2023
Bart Ehrman is arguably the best-known and best-respected Bible scholar of the modern era. He...

June 2023

June 26, 2023
William James and other conversion researchers have long noted that adolescence is a time of...
June 19, 2023
"Tinkering" In his 2018 study on internet and religion, researcher Paul McClure coined the word...
June 12, 2023
The Ads An ad pops up on your social media. It features a woman sitting...
June 05, 2023
Social Psychology began within philosophy. It was assumed early in the development of psychology that...

May 2023

May 29, 2023
The Dawn of Deconversion Research and the Emergent Church Despite the comparative lack of research...
May 22, 2023
Introduction Psychology, in terms of study and practice, began as a focused on a sort...
May 15, 2023
In a previous article, I explained the long history of conflict that had existed between...
May 08, 2023
A Rise in Atheism In the year 2000, atheism was a social curiosity in America....
May 01, 2023
Currently, Cassidy McGillicuddy is a Patheos blogger who writes on the topics of video games,...

April 2023

April 24, 2023
Joseph McCabe is a man who vies for a place as perhaps the most eloquent...
April 17, 2023
Seen in this article is a graph I created while engaged in my case study...
April 10, 2023
What Kind of Book is You Lost Me? The book You Lost Me by David...
April 03, 2023
Readers of this column will be aware that I am a researcher specializing on the...

March 2023

March 27, 2023
“’Imagine what it's like. A person smiles at you—you're confused because you don't understand a...
March 20, 2023
The Beginning of High Profile Deconversion In modern times, the first high-profile Christians to make...
March 13, 2023
Today, nearly half of America is unchurched. But even though more and more Americans are abandoning...
March 06, 2023
Since the challenging and changing of beliefs is integral to the study of conversion and...

February 2023

February 27, 2023
  In 2009, during the height of the “New Atheism” trend, but a comfortable distance...
February 20, 2023
A significant portion of my initial investigation into deconversion involved listening to interviews and reading...
February 16, 2023
On February 8th, of 2023, a group of students at Asbury University, a private Christian...
February 13, 2023
Stages of Faith is a 1981 book by psychologist James Fowler wherein he lays out...
February 06, 2023
As a column that discusses the process of religious conversion and deconversion, this space will...

January 2023

January 30, 2023
A Brief History of Conversion Research Ever since William James’ landmark study, A Variety of...
January 23, 2023
As a column that discusses the process of religious conversion and deconversion, this space will...
January 16, 2023
How Minds Change is a book by David McRaney in which the author, a science...
January 09, 2023
Thirty or forty years ago, investigating the phenomenon of religious deconversion would have been a...
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