What might happen if someone explored Christianity for one month without being asked to arrive with certainty? In ‘Thirty Days: An Honest Experiment in Christianity,’ Douglas Borgas creates a 30-day guided experience for skeptics, seekers, and people who simply want to investigate faith for themselves.
A Month Built Around Curiosity
Published on October 18, 2026, ‘Thirty Days: An Honest Experiment in Christianity’ approaches Christian living through participation and personal reflection. The 139-page Christian nonfiction book is designed for atheists, agnostics, curious readers, and those who previously walked away from faith. Douglas begins with a straightforward invitation: give Christianity thirty days. Readers can enter the experience with questions, doubts, uncertainty, or even disbelief and see where the process takes them.
That approach may feel especially relevant to people who have encountered Christianity primarily through sermons, debates, institutions, or other people’s interpretations. Douglas gives readers room to investigate the subject at their own pace. The experiment asks for a month of genuine participation, allowing personal observations to develop naturally. Nobody needs to make a declaration before beginning, and the reader remains responsible for deciding what the experience means when the thirty days are complete.
The daily structure keeps that experiment manageable. Each day includes a short reading, a question worth considering, a practical activity to try, and space for recording thoughts or observations. This format turns a large subject into a series of smaller encounters that can fit into everyday life. Readers have an opportunity to notice their reactions as they go, including moments of curiosity, resistance, insight, discomfort, or unexpected connection.
Faith Becomes Something Readers Can Examine
One of the book’s most accessible qualities is its emphasis on experience. Questions about God, Christianity, purpose, and belief can become highly abstract, particularly for someone approaching religion from a skeptical perspective. Douglas offers a defined period in which readers can engage with Christian practices and reflect on what actually happens. The journal-style component also encourages them to create a personal record rather than relying solely on memory at the end.
Thirty days gives the process a clear boundary. A reader knows from the beginning how long the experiment will last and what kind of commitment is involved. That can make the invitation approachable for someone who feels hesitant about exploring Christianity through a church or formal religious setting. The book’s central idea remains simple throughout: show up, engage sincerely with each day’s practice, pay attention, and make an individual assessment afterward.
The format also recognizes that people arrive at questions of faith from very different places. Some may have never seriously explored Christianity, while others may carry years of experience with religion and unresolved questions about it. People who left faith can use the month to revisit familiar ideas from their current perspective. Curious readers can encounter them for the first time through a structured process that encourages thought, practice, and written reflection.
About the Author
Douglas Borgas was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1981 and moved to the United States with his family at age ten. Learning a new language while adapting to a different country gave him an early understanding of what it feels like to stand outside something that others appear to understand. That experience has remained meaningful to him and influences the way he relates to people and approaches difficult questions.
Douglas is married and has two children. For twenty-five years, he has organized his life around three priorities: God first, family second, and everything else afterward. He describes that order as a steadying influence for his family, particularly during challenging periods. His conversations about faith usually happen in ordinary settings, including workplaces, streets, lines, and everyday encounters with people.
An entrepreneur and car enthusiast, Douglas earns his living through the automotive world. He doesn’t present himself as a pastor, theologian, or professional speaker. Instead, he approaches questions from the perspective of a working person who values examining ideas seriously and testing them personally. His company also supports nonprofits serving people in need within his community and elsewhere.
An Invitation to Find Out Personally
‘Thirty Days: An Honest Experiment in Christianity‘ gives readers a defined way to explore a subject they may have wondered about from a distance. Available in Kindle eBook and paperback editions, the book leaves the final judgment where Douglas believes it belongs: with the person who completed the experiment.
For skeptics, former believers, agnostics, and curious seekers, that freedom may be the most meaningful part of the experience. Thirty days provides enough time to ask questions, try the practices, record what happens, and reach a personal conclusion about what they found.
We had the privilege of interviewing the author. Here are excerpts from the interview:
Thank you so much for joining us today! Please introduce yourself and tell us what you do.
I’m Douglas Borgas. I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and moved to the United States when I was ten. I live in Cumberland, Rhode Island, with my wife and our two kids. I’m an entrepreneur, and I love cars, books, and people, probably in that order for the first two and the reverse for the last. I’m also the author of Thirty Days: An Honest Experiment in Christianity. I’m not a pastor or a theologian. I’m an ordinary person who likes talking to people, and the book came out of those conversations.
Please tell us about your journey.
Moving to a new country at ten means learning what it feels like to be the one who doesn’t know the words yet, standing outside something everyone else seems to understand. I’ve never forgotten that feeling. It’s a big part of why I wrote this book. I run my life by three rules, in order: God first, family, then everything else. I’ve kept that order for about twenty-five years, and it’s been the steadiest thing in my life. For years I’ve had honest conversations about God with people I care about, including people who don’t believe. Those conversations usually turned into arguments, and nobody ever changed their mind. So I stopped arguing and wrote down something I’d want a skeptic to try instead: thirty days, one practice a day, and then you decide for yourself.
What are the strategies that helped you become successful in your journey?
I don’t think of it as strategies so much as priorities. Put first things first. When God and family come first, the harder decisions get easier, because you already know what matters most. Show up daily. Almost everything that’s worked in my life worked through small, ordinary habits repeated for a long time. The book is built on the same idea. You don’t think your way into a new life, you live your way into a new way of thinking. Keep learning. I read constantly and usually have an audiobook going while I work. Treat the person in front of you with respect. Most of what matters happens in ordinary conversations, at work, on the street, in line somewhere. Give. I believe God blesses us so we can be a blessing, so my company gives to vetted nonprofits that help people in need, in our community and beyond.
Any message for our readers?
You are not an accident. You’re not a mistake, a coincidence, or an afterthought. Whatever you believe today, you’re loved and you matter. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like inside faith, I’d invite you to test it honestly for thirty days. Nobody decides for you, and if your answer is no, the book says that’s an honest answer.
Thank you so much, Douglas Borgas, for giving us your precious time! We wish you all the best for your journey ahead!