There Is No Wipe-Out Story: An Ex-Pastor's Journey to Atheism
I answered “a call” in 1992, when I was a first-year law student at Thurgood Marshall School of Law. At first the nature of that call was unclear, but by June of 1998, six years later, I was ordained a deacon on an elder track in the Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference, United Methodist Church (UMC). And, by 1999, I had served under Episcopal appointment to about five churches as a pastor.
