While Elizabeth enjoyed the blessings of being brought up in a devout Christian environment, she always had a nagging doubt about being “once saved, always saved.” Her desire for the truth and her husband’s Catholic background led her to investigate the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Reflecting on my life, I recognize God’s hand leading me through the times of joy and sorrow. I can now trace the turns in the road that led me to the best thing that happened to me in my life: coming home to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
Dr. Norman McCrummen returns to the Journey Home to discuss further his conversion to Catholicism after serving and retiring as a Presbyterian minister. He explains the significance of the Eucharist
Marcus Grodi welcomes a returnee to the program, Dr. David Anders, whose conversion story aired on EWTN on December 6, 2010. David is a former Calvinist and protestant historian from
Jason Stellman, former Presbyterian pastor shares his conversion story. Growing up in a nominally Christian home, Jason talks about his first real exposure to the faith at age 12 through
Becoming Catholic was never my dream or intent. It is still an all too vivid memory to me, sitting alone at age 40 in a half-lit basement, having resigned from the pastorate. I ached for having abandoned the weekly privilege of a pulpit from which to proclaim God’s truth. Would I ever have this privilege again? Will I ever again have a pulpit? Now they estimate that each week from the “pulpit” of The Journey Home television program I speak to a potential audience of over a billion viewers and listeners. In one night I speak to more people than I ever could have in my entire career as a Protestant minister. This is the humor of our merciful God. Before I converted I had no idea whatsoever how I would support my family let alone how I would continue in ministry. But this is getting way ahead of myself.
Brian Nelson’s passion is music. It is interwoven in his life’s story and in his conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism. Originally a performance major at the University, Brian switched to
Despite being a child born into a Presbyterian home in Virginia, Fr. Carter Griffin found himself at a young age as a student in a Catholic elementary school in Brazil.
Marcus welcomes Fr. David Poecking to the program. Growing up in Buffalo, NY, Fr. David was baptized and confirmed in the church of his family, Presbyterian. While in the fourth
by Dr. Kenneth Howell. I am deeply grateful for how I grew up. I was baptized into the Presbyterian Church when I was an infant, grew up in a good, solid congregation that had a vibrant youth group in my teen years. I attended a Presbyterian college, a Reformed seminary, and taught in a Reformed seminary before becoming a Catholic. As I look back I can now see three ways in which the Reformed Faith prepared me for becoming a Catholic.
Intellectually, I had a strong “faith” in the tenets of Protestantism, particularly as they were expressed in the Calvinist tradition. Yet Calvinism excused my sin as something God Himself did not see, since, so I believed, the righteousness of Christ had been imputed to me because of my genuine faith, covering over my sins so that He was blind to them, at least insofar as my salvation was concerned.
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.
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