Jason grew up in Florida with a broad Evangelical background. He met his future wife in high school when she moved from Chicago at age 15. Both had strong Protestant
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“Living with many mutually contradictory doctrines made understanding the faith similar to trying to complete a complex puzzle from a combination of different jigsaw puzzles stirred together.” Evangelical Wesley Vincent noticed that every pastor who preached the Bible seemed to have a different understanding of what it meant to be a follower of Christ.
Having been dedicated to the Lord while still in the womb, Nancy grew up in the Baptist Church. It was through the devotion of her mother and Sunday School that
Abby Johnson, author and speaker, is a convert to the Catholic Church. Abby talks about growing up in southwest Louisiana in a great Christian home environment. Despite living in a
Marcus welcomes Catholic revert Billie Mobley to the Journey Home Program. Billie, a native of Newark, NJ, and a daughter of a Southern Baptist mother and a first-generation Portuguese Catholic
by Paul McCusker. Frankly, I doubt I would be much of a Catholic now without the benefit of all I’d been taught by Protestants as I travelled this way. I know that had I followed my father’s lead as a Catholic I wouldn’t be Catholic at all. (For him, it was a cultural identity, something handed down to him like an old coat he didn’t really want – if even that.) Any spark of faith in my life was fanned by my very-Protestant mother, faithful relatives and, in my formative years, the good people at Grace Baptist Church in my hometown.
Dr. Dale Pollard is a former Lutheran, Baptist, Assembly of God and Presbyterian. Dale joins Marcus in sharing his long journey through many strands of Protestantism into the Catholic Church.
Pat Irmi of OH grew up in an active Southern Baptist home and attended a Baptist college. She shares her story of marriage, divorce and remarriage that, for the most
My story begins in a naval hospital in Pittsburgh, California, where I was born to an 18-year-old girl and her 19-year-old husband. My parents were believers and we attended the Nazarene church close to our house.. I do remember that my mother used to turn on the TV to do her daily workouts with Jack LaLanne, and just before he came on, there was a show with a man wearing a cap, a large cross on a chain, and he wore a cape that he threw around as he talked. His eyes burned into the camera! Later I would learn that his name was Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
Leo Brown, radio personality in Lexington, KY, shares the story of his improbable transition from the rock and roll culture into Catholic radio apologetics. Leo had a death-defying experience which
I was bored with the Catholic Church! All I did was daydream through Mass and my catechism classes. When I was 10, my parents stopped going to Mass, but my father would still drop off my sister and I at the church.
As I began to describe my works-laden justification, Mr. Pharis told me bluntly, “You’re not getting into heaven.” … He got my attention. I was not saved!
