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Finding Faith, Losing Faith examines conversion stories as told by people who have actually undergone a conversion experience, including experiences of apostasy. The stories reveal that there is not just one “conversion story.” Scot McKnight and Hauna Ondrey show that “conversion theory” helps explain why some people walk away from one religion, often to another, very different religion. The book...

those who have clearly and consciously walked away from the faith, and I will look at Christine Wicker and John W. Loftus. Guilt drove Christine Wicker, a journalist who covers the religious scene in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the faith. As she says it in her well-written memoir, God Knows My Heart, “one day I dropped the load by the side of road. Good-bye, guilt. Good-bye, God. Hello, world.” Putting her apostasy together, she says, “The specifics of why
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