Career
DeWitt is the former executive director of Recovering From Religion, a group which helps people find their way after a loss of faith. DeWitt is a former pastor of two churches surrounding DeRidder, Louisiana, a town where two-thirds of the population report membership in a faith organization. DeWitt first experienced doubts about his religious beliefs when he contemplated the idea of hell.
He preached for the last time in April 2011.
After becoming aware that he no longer held theistic beliefs, DeWitt joined the Clergy Project, a group which lends confidential support to preachers who no longer believe in God. In 2011 and 2012, he served as the executive director of Recovering from Religion, a Kansas City-based organization which helps former theists recover from the trauma of their religious indoctrination and subsequent experiences.
DeWitt has written a book based on his career and experiences entitled Hope After Faith. The 288-page autobiographical book was written by Dewitt and Ethan Brown, and published in 2013 by Da Capo Press.
In a story for the New York Times, DeWitt said, "Just because we value critical thinking and the scientific method, that doesn"t mean we suddenly become disembodied and we can no longer benefit from our emotional lives.".
