Joshua Harris, the bestselling author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye who previously announced that he was separating from his wife, said Friday he no longer considers himself a Christian.
I Kissed Dating Goodbye was one of the most popular Christian books in the late 1990s and early 2000s among Christian families and singles who embraced the courtship model. Harris then went on to pastor a congregation, Covenant Life Church in Maryland.
In mid-July, Harris and his wife, Shannon, announced on social media they were separating.
“In recent years, some significant changes have taken place in both of us,” Harris wrote on Instagram.
On Friday, he revealed one of those significant changes.
“The information that was left out of our announcement is that I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus,” he wrote on Instagram. “The popular phrase for this is ‘deconstruction,’ the biblical phrase is ‘falling away.’ By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not a Christian. Many people tell me that there is a different way to practice faith and I want to remain open to this, but I’m not there now.”
Harris also noted that his views on sexuality had changed.
“I specifically want to add to this list now: to the LGBTQ+ community, I want to say that I am sorry for the views that I taught in my…
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