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After losing nearly everything, including his job and his wife, due to his crumbling faith, the author shares his transformative journey from a pastor with a deep Christian faith to a leader and well-known speaker in America's fast-growing atheist movement. 50,000 first printing.
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Jerry DeWitt’s ministry began when he was seventeen. After twenty-five years of preaching, including pastorship of two fundamentalist congregations, he became an atheist. DeWitt lives in rural Louisiana.
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Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion
The clergyman who sees the light, loses his faith, and realizes that his life’s work has been empty delusion faces worse than inner torment. In small-town America he confronts public ostracism, family break-up, and financial ruin. Such was the predicament of Jerry DeWitt. Brother DeWitt has landed on his feet, but many others still wrestle in the closet with the pain. This poignant book will give them strength.”
Dan Barker, author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists
Jerry DeWitt tells a truly remarkable story of an actual faith healing. He healed himself of his faith. Jerry’s honest and wrenching struggle to find his way out of the Pentecostal/evangelical house of mirrors is driven inexorably by his true concern: his unfailing love for people. I literally got goosebumps reading this page-turner, and cheered for joy at the end.”
Bishop Carlton Pearson, author of God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu... and The Gospel of Inclusion
My friend Jerry Dewitt is one of those raving lunatics’ (spiritual eccentrics) who insists on disturbing the illusion and has thus created a new path for his own soul and continues to evolve. I can hardly wait to see where his bridge takes him and us.”
Publishers Weekly, 5/15/13 A fascinating insider’s tour of the often-mystifying doctrines of Pentecostalism deeply intriguing, offering a firsthand account of the slow crumbling of a life’s foundation in faith and its consequences Those who share DeWitt’s perspective and even those who are true believers will find much to engage them.”
Crooks & Liars, 6/18/13
A genuine page-turner.”
MSNBC-TV’s Morning Joe,” 6/28/13
A real grabber.”
Shelf Awareness, 7/9/13
[A] chicken-fried steak of a memoir .[An] authentic and compelling read Fascinating .Hope After Faith is a richly detailed, nakedly honest story that will resonate with many.”
Winnipeg Free Press (Canada), 7/20/13
[An] earnest memoir [An] interesting human story.”
The clergyman who sees the light, loses his faith, and realizes that his life’s work has been empty delusion faces worse than inner torment. In small-town America he confronts public ostracism, family break-up, and financial ruin. Such was the predicament of Jerry DeWitt. Brother DeWitt has landed on his feet, but many others still wrestle in the closet with the pain. This poignant book will give them strength.”
Dan Barker, author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists
Jerry DeWitt tells a truly remarkable story of an actual faith healing. He healed himself of his faith. Jerry’s honest and wrenching struggle to find his way out of the Pentecostal/evangelical house of mirrors is driven inexorably by his true concern: his unfailing love for people. I literally got goosebumps reading this page-turner, and cheered for joy at the end.”
Bishop Carlton Pearson, author of God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu... and The Gospel of Inclusion
My friend Jerry Dewitt is one of those raving lunatics’ (spiritual eccentrics) who insists on disturbing the illusion and has thus created a new path for his own soul and continues to evolve. I can hardly wait to see where his bridge takes him and us.”
Publishers Weekly, 5/15/13 A fascinating insider’s tour of the often-mystifying doctrines of Pentecostalism deeply intriguing, offering a firsthand account of the slow crumbling of a life’s foundation in faith and its consequences Those who share DeWitt’s perspective and even those who are true believers will find much to engage them.”
Crooks & Liars, 6/18/13
A genuine page-turner.”
MSNBC-TV’s Morning Joe,” 6/28/13
A real grabber.”
Shelf Awareness, 7/9/13
[A] chicken-fried steak of a memoir .[An] authentic and compelling read Fascinating .Hope After Faith is a richly detailed, nakedly honest story that will resonate with many.”
Winnipeg Free Press (Canada), 7/20/13
[An] earnest memoir [An] interesting human story.”
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- PublisherDa Capo Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 030682289X
- ISBN 13 9780306822896
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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