An unbelieving seeker journalist in the US finds faith

Molly Worthen is a highly regarded historian and journalist who researches North American religious and intellectual history.

She is perhaps best known for her book Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism, which examines American evangelical intellectual life since 1945. She also writes regularly about religion, politics and higher education for the New York Times.

In August 2022 she stunned academic and church circles in the US when she announced she had become a Christian. What follows are edited extracts from an interview she gave to Collin Hansen on her conversion, which may be found as a podcast on The Gospel Coalition’s website.