Religious Conversion

Longtime Atheist Activist Converts To Christianity

Posted 04.06.2012

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Two months after he threatened to sue a Texas county for allowing a Nativity scene on public property, longtime atheist Patrick Greene has announced t...

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Rick Santorum Will Stealthily Convert The Jews Of South Carolina

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.08.2012

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New York Observer political reporter Hunter Walker unearths a pretty hilarious relic from the past holiday season -- a wonderful little holiday card i...

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The Observations Of A Jew Who Converted To Islam

Jeremy Greenberg | Posted 01.18.2012

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Why did I convert? Simple. I wanted to better understand the life of Muslims in America, and what their growing presence means for the rest of us.

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When A Family Member Converts

Craig Harline | Posted 11.15.2011

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What are the choices when a loved one leaves the family faith (or non-faith)? Though we may think we're far beyond the bickering of our forebears, our choices have remained much the same since the Reformation.

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Conversion To Islam One Result Of Post-9/11 Curiosity

Posted 10.24.2011

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By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service BOSTON (RNS) Like a lot of other people in the haze and confusion of the 9/11 attacks, Johannah Segarich as...

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Reading Christianity in the Age of Glenn Beck

Suzanne Morrison | Posted 10.17.2011

When it comes to buying Christian works, and I don't mean just liberal-approved Christian books like Lit, I often buy them online. Why? Well, because I'm embarrassed.

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The Complicated Relationship Between Intermarriage And Jewish Conversion

Paul Golin | Posted 05.31.2011

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As acceptance of intermarriage continues to grow in the organized Jewish community, I'm hopeful that separation between the issues of intermarriage and conversion will continue.

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Amazing Grace: How Conversion Really Works

Briallen Hopper | Posted 05.25.2011

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We need conversion stories, but we need many other religious narratives as well, because conversion is never the whole story. We may convert, but we remain ourselves.

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Tony Blair's Sister-In-Law Converts To Islam, Asks: Why All The Horror?

The Guardian | Lauren Booth | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a western woman with all my freedoms, I expected to deal professionally with men alone. After all, that's what the Muslim world is all about, right...

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Ex-Catholics and Ex-Evangelicals: Why Did You Leave?

Diana Butler Bass | Posted 05.25.2011

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Are you a former Roman Catholic or former conservative evangelical? Or are you someone who is thinking of leaving one of these faith communities? I'm curious: Why did you leave and where have you landed?

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Morocco Defends Expulsion Of Christian Workers

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Two days after expelling 20 Christian workers, Morocco has defended its actions saying that it will take a tough line on proselytism -- seeking conver...

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Large and in Charge

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Whether you're colonizing natives in the New World or trying to keep women down without actually having to do anything, it's always good to make the people you control feel that everything is their idea.

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Rifqa, the Reverand and Apostasy

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mohamed Bary says she can practice any faith she wants -- clearly, he is not a fundamentalist. He believes his daughter was brainwashed and kidnapped.

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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science: Part 4 of 6

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.17.2011

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The born again experience doesn't require a specific set of beliefs, but rather a specific social/emotional process; dogmas or explanations are secondary. It's not an experience unique to Christianity.

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Imagining God in Color

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

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From childhood everyone is taught to imagine God as a person, and inevitably that person has skin the color of those who worship him. But a humanized God in any faith is a projection, not a reality.

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