By William Lobdell

William Lobdell's trip of faith—and doubt—may be the main compelling religious memoir of our time. Lobdell turned a born-again Christian in his overdue 20s while own problems—including a failed marriage—drove him to his knees in prayer. As a newly minted evangelical, Lobdell—a veteran journalist—noticed that faith wasn't lined good within the mainstream media, and he prayed for the Lord to place him at the faith beat at a tremendous newspaper. In 1998, his prayers have been responded while the Los Angeles Times requested him to jot down approximately religion.

but what occurred over the subsequent 8 years used to be a roller-coaster of notion, confusion, doubt, and soul-searching as his reporting and reports slowly chipped away at his religion. whereas reporting on 1000s of reports, he witnessed a anxious hole among the tenets of varied religions and the behaviors of the trustworthy and their leaders. He investigated non secular associations that acted much less ethically than corrupt Wall St. agencies. He discovered few modifications among the morals of Christians and atheists. As this proof piled up, he began to worry that God didn't exist. He explored each doubt, each question—until, eventually, his religion collapsed. After the paper agreed to reassign him, he wrote a private essay in the summertime of 2007 that grew to become a global sensation for its sincere exploration of doubt.

Losing My Religion is a publication approximately life's inner most questions that speaks to each person: Lobdell is aware the longings and satisfactions of the devoted, in addition to the unrelenting energy of doubt. How he confronted that strength, and wrestled with it, is needs to examining for individuals of religion and nonbelievers alike.