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"I wouldn't ever say I chose to be an atheist. In fact, I tried really hard to convince myself back."

Absit Invidia: No Offense Intended

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 mor...

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 co...

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 conversatio...

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 mor...

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 prepa...

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 ...

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