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GOING...GOING...GONE! Book

Greetings Friends, I have heard form several persons that they are unable to download the e-book from the website. To try and make it...

Poor Preparation Part #4

Painfully prepared disciples are prone to crises of faith. By painfully prepared I simply mean hurt by judgmentalism and it's frequent...

Poor Preparation #3

There is a third way in which well meaning parents and church leaders set up believers for a crisis of faith. I call it being half-baked...

Poor Preparation #2

Prior to the three most recent posts (which came from my interview with Randal Rauser), I was unpacking the second aspect of A Recipe for...

Interview Part 3

This is the third and final installment in my interview/conversation with Dr. John Marriott on the issue of Christians leaving the faith...

Interview Part 2

Part 2 of my interview with Randal Rauser, professor of historical theology at Taylor Seminary. In this article, I continue a...

Interview Part 1

This week I did a three part interview with Randal Rauser, professor of historical theology at Taylor Seminary in Edmonton Canada. Below...

Poor Preparation #1

Previously I pointed out that when it comes to the loss of faith, there are a number of personality traits that make it statistically...

A Recipe For Disaster: The Ingredients

In my previous post I noted that the process of losing faith is like a recipe. Recipes consist of three parts, the ingredients, the...

The Four Ways We Mess Up

I want to send out a short post about the core ideas contained in my new book on deconversion. In October I published a book entitled: A...

Committed Christian to Unbeliever?

I have been blogging about the context out which deconversions often emerge. Last week I mentioned that many stories shared by deconverts...

Does the Bible Cause Deconversion?

Does the Bible Cause Deconversion? Psychologist and former evangelical believer, Valeri Turico seems to think so: “Bible-believing...

Unfulfilled Expectations: The Relationship Between Inerrancy and Unbelief

"When you find out this thing called THE truth, may not be true - boom - that did a number on me!" Dave, former believer, atheist...

The Road to Apostasy is Paved with Bad Expectations

The Road to Apostasy Is Paved With Bad Expectations Recently, I was reading a Masters thesis by a Canadian student at the University of...

So Why Did I Deconvert?

"So why did I deconvert…? That’s a fair question. And a hard one. But I think I’ve narrowed it down to three major components.” So begins...

Conversion or Deconversion, What's the Difference?

“Why do you use the term “deconversion”? Don’t you think you would have better luck getting people to participate in your study if you...

What is Deconversion?

In 1974, at 14 years of age Dan Barker was converted to Christ. The next 20 years of his life were spent in committed Christian service....

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