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Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

A “crisis” is a convergence of various factors in a person’s life that leads a person to “quest” for a religious conversion. In Turning to Jesus I discuss and illustrate ten “catalysts” or “kinds of crisis” that can lead a person to convert. In our study of the ERC, we discover that the ERC may be led to convert as a result of the following crises: mystical experience, illnesses and the need for healing—and here I include any sort of psychological condition
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