Real, public stories

Sceptics who changed their minds

People who examined the evidence, often expecting to reject it, and changed their minds. Each is a short summary, in our words, of an account the person published themselves; read their own book for the full story.

Illustration, AI-generated

C. S. Lewis: the most reluctant convert

An Oxford scholar and atheist who came first to belief in God and then, after long conversations with friends including J. R. R. Tolkien, to faith in Christ. He told the story in Surprised by Joy (1955).

Illustration, AI-generated

Lee Strobel: a journalist investigates

A legal editor at the Chicago Tribune and an atheist, Strobel set out to investigate the evidence for Jesus after his wife became a Christian, and came to faith in 1981. He describes the investigation in The Case for Christ (1998).

Illustration, AI-generated

J. Warner Wallace: a detective tests the Gospels

A Los Angeles County cold-case homicide detective and atheist who applied his methods for testing eyewitness statements to the Gospels and became a Christian in 1996. He describes it in Cold-Case Christianity (2013).

Illustration, AI-generated

Nabeel Qureshi: from Islam to Jesus

A devout Muslim who set out to defend Islam to a Christian friend, examined the evidence for the crucifixion, the resurrection and Jesus' claims, and became a Christian. He told the story in Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus (2014).

Illustration, AI-generated

Frank Morison: the book that refused to be written

A writer who set out to tell the last days of Jesus without the resurrection, and found the evidence led him the other way. His book Who Moved the Stone? (1930) opens with that story.

Illustration, AI-generated

Rosaria Butterfield: a professor's unlikely conversion

A tenured professor of English and women's studies at Syracuse University who was befriended by a pastor and his wife, read the Bible to critique it, and became a Christian in 1999. She describes it in The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (2012).

Illustration, AI-generated

Antony Flew: an atheist philosopher follows the argument

For decades one of the best-known atheist philosophers, Flew announced in 2004 that he had come to believe in God, largely because of the evidence of design in nature. He did not become a Christian. He explained his change in There Is a God (2007).

Swipe this series

Why the evidence matters