As a Charismatic Protestant, Kevin Stephenson remembers having powerful experiences of God’s presence in worship, especially when singing the Psalms, or sitting in silence. When he discovered that the Catholic
As a child, Michael Davis was scared of Jesus; the hellfire and brimstone preaching he was raised on as a Fundamentalist Baptist gave him a picture of an angry judge
As a Catholic teen, Chris Reibold thought that the saints were just pious legends and fairytales along with all the other Catholic “stuff” like Virgin births and miracles. After decades
How are ecumenism and evangelism supposed to work together? Tom Murphy, who spent several years as an Evangelical Protestant before returning to the Catholic Church, shares how the enemy in
Jessica Ptomey skipped around denominations growing up, and each of them seemed to have a slightly different take on what happens to lifelong Christians who die without being completely sinless.
Growing up Baptist, first in Canada and then at Liberty University, the Bible was the most important book in RJ Snell’s life. He memorized passages, read it daily, and based
As a nondenominational pastor, David Sanborn understood the idea of the love, mercy compassion of Jesus, but was a little taken aback at the idea that Catholics had a devotion
When Jeff Cavins came back to the Catholic Church after some experience as a nondenominational minister, he was at first disoriented by all the different devotions, spiritualities, and apostolates that
As he began to really study Catholicism, Nathaniel Hurd, who had grown up mostly agnostic, was pleasantly surprised to find out just how practical the sacramental theology of the Church
As she was preparing for her confirmation on Pentecost, Sister Maria Theotokos decided to do a Marian pilgrimage to Lourdes. It was there, praying in an adoration chapel, that she
Though raised Catholic, Jeff Cavins didn’t really “get” the idea of the Holy Spirit until an experience at a Catholic Charismatic conference when he was 18. In his youthful zeal,
Growing up in the Christian Reformed Church, Dr. John Bersgma remembers visiting Baptist churches and hearing elaborate and far-fetched explanations of the events in the book of Revelation. He thought
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