Christ or the Pit

November 15th, 2023 | 5 min read

The former atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali announced recently in an essay at Unherd that she is now a Christian. Given Ali's ties to the new atheist movement in the 2000s—she wrote a book called Infidel in 2008—the news has been received with surprise and even shock by many.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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