Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar,

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.

Today we're going to be covering a more personal topic than usual. We're going to be looking at

Bart's faith journey and deconversion from evangelical Christianity. A person's reasons for

deconversion to agnosticism or atheism is something that many Christians

speculate wildly about, misunderstand or simply refuse to believe. But those reasons can be varied

and complex and I think are worth spending some time investigating. But before we get into the heavy

stuff, Bart, how is your week going? Yeah, so my week is going well. This is a big week for me.

My book has come out today. And so, you know, when you write a book, you never know when it's

going to come out because the publisher decides and you have no say in it. Books on religion,

they like to come out either before Christmas or before Easter. People kind of like

accuse me like being cynical by doing it. That was like, I had no choice in this better. This thing

was ready to come out last October as far as I was. So yeah, so it's a big day. Books released. And so

yeah, life's good. How's your life? Good? Yes, good. Actually, March tends to be a little on the busy side. We have several birthdays. So my daughter's birthday was yesterday. She turned 10. And my mom actually went back to the UK yesterday as well. So it's been a busy week, but very pleasant. Well, 10, you know, the thing about 10 is that, you know, you're going to be in double digits for the next 89 years of your life.

So, like, it's a big deal.

She was very excited.

I bet. Okay. Well, I hope you did well in the birthday hall.

She thinks so, which is important.

That's what matters.

She thinks so.

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