(Faithit) Back in May of this year, Jon Steingard, the lead guitarist for Christian pop-punk band, Hawk Nelson, made a lengthy public announcement on Instagram, explaining that he no longer believes in God.
“I’ve been terrified to post this for a while – but it feels like it’s time for me to be honest,” wrote Steingard in opening the message he’d been afraid to share for years, adding, “I hope this is not the end of the conversation, but the beginning.”
“This is not a post I ever thought that I would write, but now I feel like I really need to,” he wrote. “After growing up in a Christian home, being a pastor’s kid, playing and singing in a Christian band, and having the word ‘Christian’ in front of most of the things in my life — I am now finding that I no longer believe in God.”