Jim Thring was a Christian for 15 years before losing his faith and becoming a humanist atheist. He rediscovered his Christian faith years later through apologetics. Jana Harmon shares some of Jim’s story here 

Jim Thring was a committed Christian for 15 years. He then left his faith in his mid-30s, passionately identifying as a humanist atheist for the next nine years. During that time, he genuinely could not see how he could possibly go back to believing in God again. Yet, against all odds, he discovered a more robust form of Christianity than the one he left behind and reconverted. What changed his mind?

Coming to faith 

Raised in London with a typical British upbringing, Jim saw religion through pageantry and tradition as tied to the Church of England. Christianity was ‘nice’ as a religious ritual, but it wasn’t something in which he was… (Register to read the rest of the article)