11 Facts About Dan Barker

Daniel Edwin Barker was born on June 25,1949 and is an American atheist activist and musician who served as an evangelical Christian preacher and composer for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984.

Dan Barker has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, an American freethought newspaper.

Dan Barker is the author of several books including Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist.

Dan Barker is on the speakers bureau of the Secular Student Alliance.

Dan Barker received a degree in religion from Azusa Pacific University and was ordained to the ministry by the Standard Community Church, California, in 1975.

Dan Barker served as associate pastor at several churches: Religious Society of Friends, a church in the Assemblies of God fellowship, and an independent Charismatic church.

Dan Barker receives royalties from his popular children's Christian musicals, Mary Had a Little Lamb and His Fleece Was White as Snow, both published by Manna Music.

Dan Barker is a member of the Lenni Lenape Delaware Tribe of Indians, and in 1991 edited and published Paradise Remembered, a collection of his grandfather's stories as a Lenape boy in Indian Territory.

Dan Barker is the current co-president with his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an American freethought organization that promotes the separation of church and state.

Dan Barker has appeared on dozens of national television and radio programs to discuss and debate issues related to atheism and the separation of state and church.

Dan Barker was featured in a New York Times article about the growth of atheism in Southern states, has given addresses on his own "de-conversion" across the United States, and has participated in more than 140 debates around the country and the world.