Michael Davis was raised on Baptist hellfire and brimstone, and it turned him off to Christianity altogether as a young man. Later, when he met a pastor who showed him the love of Jesus, he had a profound conversion and felt a call to ministry, attending Pensacola Christian College and becoming an ordained Southern Baptist minister. Along the way, he felt a call to full-time homeless ministry, and it was in that context that he met some Catholic sisters, who overturned all his misconceptions about Catholicism, and helped him solve some of the major contradictions within his Baptist theology that had been bothering him for decades.