Losing Faith In Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
Dan Barker
Thursday, 14 Apr 2005 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Dan Barker is the Public Relations Director of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and author of Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children; Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics;Paradise Remembered: A Lenape Indian Childhood, and other stories; Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong: A Guide for Young Thinkers; and Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist. He was an ordained a minister in the Standard Community Church in 1975 and his atheism publicly in 1984.He has an undergraduate degree in Religion from Azusa Pacific University and is a member of the Lenni Lenape (Delaware Indian) Tribe of Native Americans.
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