Unconvinced: How Belief is Not a Choice and Why That Changes Everything

Unconvinced is a bold, accessible, and morally urgent book about a widespread assumption in religion that often goes unexamined: that we are responsible for what we believe. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and theology, it makes the case that belief is not a choice—and that salvation systems which reward or punish people for what they believe are therefore unjust.

The book doesn’t attempt to settle the question of God’s existence. Instead, it zeroes in on how belief works an...