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The Alisa Childers Podcast

#352 He Was Ready to Become an Atheist...Then This Happened, with Allen Hainline and Devin Squeri

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

When long-buried questions finally surface, faith can feel like it’s hanging by a thread. In this episode, Alisa sits down with Allen Hainline and Devin Squeri to walk gently and honestly through a real crisis of belief. Devon shares how decades of suppressed doubts, scientific objections, and persuasive online voices nearly led him to abandon Christianity, and what happened when he decided to truly investigate instead of walk away. Together they offer compassionate guidance for anyone wrestling with doubt, expose common internet myths, and show how patient discipleship and solid answers can rebuild confidence in the gospel. If you or someone you love is struggling, this conversation points to hope, clarity, and real help through resources like Devin's book, The Doubt Project, and talkaboutdoubts.com.

The Doubt Project - https://a.co/d/07Gx3nO

https://talkaboutdoubts.com

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0:00.0

The reality is, and please anyone listening, if you're going through this, believe me on this, you need to investigate your sources because the internet is amazing because you can get so much information.

0:12.0

But the other side is that there are a lot of people out there with a megaphone that have an agenda.

0:18.1

They are, they are, they are hammers looking for nails.

0:21.4

And there's a lot of stuff out there. That comes from, from sources that, you know, with PhDs or

0:30.1

they sound authoritative and they've got some well done science. and they say it with such certainty that when you

0:39.3

are in that place of vulnerability, it is very easy to get sucked in.

0:53.8

If you grew up in the church, have you ever doubted that what you were taught in Sunday school

0:58.7

was actually true? As you grew older, did those doubts multiply and expand? And maybe you pushed them down

1:05.5

because you just faked it until you made it. And then one day, they all come bubbling out. Well,

1:10.3

that is exactly

1:11.1

what happened with my guest today, Devin Squeary. He was raised in the Catholic Church,

1:16.0

and he never really knew for sure if it was true. And as he got older and became interested in

1:21.5

science, he began to question whether any of it was true at all. And then those doubts began to

1:26.8

compound. And when he was on the

1:29.1

verge of atheism, he decided that he wanted to seek truth because he realized that he had to

1:34.0

figure out what was the meaning of life if it wasn't Christianity. So he joined a group where

1:38.9

Christians and atheists met together. And that's where he met my friend Alan Hainline.

1:44.0

Alan is an apologist with a background in physics and intelligent design and the fine-tuning

1:48.9

argument.

1:49.7

The two of them met, and ultimately, it's a beautiful and encouraging story of Alan, discipling

1:55.6

Devin into a true faith, resolving his doubts.

1:59.1

And today, Devin's here to talk about his book called The Doubt

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