The Global Atheist Convention is returning in 2018 and one of the speakers who spoke at a previous convention is returning — this is the talk he gave called “How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists”.

Dan Barker is a former evangelical preacher, now Co-President of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He became a teenage evangelist at age 15, and received a degree in Religion from Azusa Pacific University and was ordained to the ministry by the Standard Community Church, California, in 1975. He preached for 19 years and maintained an ongoing touring musical ministry, including eight years of full-time, cross-country evangelism. 

Following five years of reading, Dan gradually outgrew his religious beliefs. He was elected Co-President of the Foundation with Annie Laurie Gaylor in 2004, with whom he is co-host of Freethought Radio, a national weekly talkshow on the Air America network. 

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