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January 2023

January 02, 2023
The book "Faith After Doubt" was authored by Brian McLaren, and released in the year...

December 2022

December 26, 2022
Introduction  It is no surprise to science that there exists a tension or distrust between...
December 19, 2022
The Brain Damage You have no doubt heard it said that we still have much...
December 12, 2022
In 2019, researchers Perez and Vallieres conducted an in-depth study on the subject of deconversion....
December 05, 2022
WHAT IS RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME? There is a phenomenon known as "Religious Trauma Syndrome" (RTS)...
December 02, 2022
Testing Thought Complexity It's a fairly common trope: religious people are knuckle-dragging uneducated troglodytes more...

November 2022

November 29, 2022
Cameron Bertuzzi is an influential speaker and media producer in the popular field of Christian...
November 28, 2022
Peter Boghossian is a philosopher and college professor who is responsible for inventing the practice...
November 21, 2022
In his March 24th talk at the 2012 Reason Rally, popular atheist speaker Richard Dawkins...
November 14, 2022
I began looking onto deconversion as a journalist. I wanted to look at stories of...
November 07, 2022
Sometimes we want to know why people do the things they do. In my field...

October 2022

October 31, 2022
It has almost become a trope among Christians that sending your kids off to college...
October 24, 2022
CONVERSION NARRATIVES Starbuck (1866-1947) and James (1902) were pioneers in the field of Conversion studies....
October 20, 2022
While the substance of this column is related to studies in religious psychology, Patheos has...
October 17, 2022
It has long been argued in religious conversion studies whether there is a significant difference...
October 10, 2022
In his book The Variety of Religious Experiences, William James writes about multiple accounts of...
October 03, 2022
What is ‘Doubt’ It isn’t uncommon for a person to be skeptical toward a claim....

September 2022

September 26, 2022
Imagine eating a bag of salty chips. Before you begin to munch on the chips,...
September 19, 2022
The first several articles in this column focused on the history of conversion research. Understanding...
September 13, 2022
Because of the vast separation in time, location, and culture between the development of Judeo-Christian...
September 12, 2022
The Divine Precept was a cult which had begun in Korea, attracting thousands of members....
September 08, 2022
The Conversion of Yoon-Sook Lee Miss Yoon-Sook Lee had a problem. It started as chronic...
September 05, 2022
Pre-Scientific Views on Conversion People have been practicing religion since the dawn of human history,...
September 02, 2022
For this first entry in Switching Sides, I would like to tell you the story...
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