Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm Timothy Padgett.

At the beginning of February, Larry Sanger announced that he had become a Christian.

We should rejoice when anyone comes to faith.

But this conversion is especially interesting.

Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is another in a notable line of skeptics who have

recently become believers or are well on their way to. Sanger's background makes him a seemingly unlikely

convert. As he put it when describing his testimony, throughout my adult life, I've been a devotee of

rationality, methodological skepticism, and a somewhat hard-nosed and no nonsense, but always

open-minded, rigor.

I have a PhD in philosophy, my training being in analytic philosophy, a field dominated

by atheists and agnostics.

Once I slummed about on the fringes of the Ayn Rand community, which is also heavily atheist.

So old friends and colleagues who lost touch might be

surprised. Sanger's full story is worth reading. It is that of a highly intelligent man coming to terms

with truth after years of wandering through academia, famously penning skeptical blogs and essays

about morality, good, evil, the West, and God. At one time, Sanger decided to start reading

the Bible, not because he wanted to find God, but because he was, quote, the West, and God. At one time, Sanger decided to start reading the Bible, not because he

wanted to find God, but because he was, quote, trained as a close reader of difficult texts,

and he wanted to understand it properly. Like S. Louis, another reluctant convert, Sanger found

that the Bible could sustain the interrogation of all his critical questions. He slowly began experimenting with

talking to God and reading through apologetic works that put God the Creator in the middle of even

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