Out of the Desert: A Spiritual Journey through Atheism

by Jeff Rice

A journalist recounts his loss of faith and how a chance visit to a local church helped find new meaning in the oldest story of western civilization. It is an unapologetic look at his journey into atheism - what he calls "the desert" and how he found his way out the other side. Part memoir, part treatise, it explains how one man came to embrace Christianity as a modern mythology and see ancient scripture as the best roadmap to negotiating life in the 21st century.

127 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 14, 2020

About the author

Jeffrey Grant Rice was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA in 1944. He spent his early childhood in Beverly Hills. He has been a Las Vegas resident since 1955.

Jeff Rice is best known as the author of The Kolchak Papers, a novel he finished on October 31, 1970. Rice’s novel was still unpublished when it was optioned for television and adapted for a TV audience as The Night Stalker. It subsequently had a brief print run when the Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series grew in popularity. In 2007 Moonstone Books released a new edition which also includes the sequel, The Night Strangler.

Reviews

[Peter Burrowes]

A good memoir. Lots to ponder on.

As a side note, this gave me some ideas on restructuring my own memoir I'm working on.