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Hope after Faith: An Ex-Pastor's Journey from Belief to Atheism
Hope after Faith An ExPastor's Journey from Belief to Atheism Author:Jerry DeWitt, Ethan Brown Jerry DeWitt was a pastor in the town of DeRidder, Louisiana, and a fixture of the community. He had begun to question his Pentecostal faith, however, and late one night in 2011, a member of his flock called seeking prayer for her brother who had been in a serious accident. As DeWitt searched for the right words to console her, speech failed him... more », and he found that the faith which had once formed the cornerstone of his life finally crumbled to dust.
When DeWitt was eventually outed as an atheist, he found himself shunned by much of DeRidder?s highly religious community, losing his job, his wife, and nearly everything he?d known. He has since become a leader and well-known speaker in America?s fast growing atheist movement. Hope after Faith tells the story of his life passage from a pastor with a deep Christian faith to a committed and considered atheism driven by humanism, a profound moral dimension, and the happiness and self-confidence obtained by living free of fear.« less