A former African American minister reveals his unusual journey from
faith to atheism.
Anthony Pinn preached his first sermon at age twelve. At eighteen
he became one of the youngest ordained ministers in his
denomination. He then quickly moved up the ministerial ranks.
Eventually he graduated from Columbia University and then received
a Master of Divinity in theology and a PhD in religion from Harvard
University.
All the while, Pinn was wrestling with a growing skepticism. As his
intellectual horizons expanded, he became less and less confident
in the theism of his upbringing. At the same time, he became aware
that his church could offer only anemic responses to the
acute social needs of the community. In his mid-twenties, he
finally decided to leave the ministry and committed the rest of his
life to academia. He went on to become a distinguished scholar of
African American humanism and religious history.
The once fully committed believer evolved into an equally
committed nonbeliever convinced that a secular approach to life
offers the best hope of solving humanity's problems.
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