Ken Reiman was raised without any formal religious background, although he was exposed to many traditions, especially Buddhism through spending summers with his grandmother in Japan. He gradually moved from
Jennifer Bryson was raised Christian, but by middle school had decided that religion was a stupid thing for stupid people. As an exchange student in Austria, she began to be
Rhonda Gruenewald’s mom was Methodist, but her dad didn’t even want a Bible in the house, so she had zero religious upbringing, even after the divorce of her parents revealed
Dino Remedios grew up nominally Catholic, absorbing much of what he knew about the faith from the Filipino culture he came from. In his teenage years, he began to drift
Dr. Brandon Vaidyanathan was not particularly interested in religion as a teenager, but when he found out an ex-girlfriend of his was involved in a Catholic youth group, he decided
Robert Tunmire lived the first part of his life completely secular, going through a couple of marriages and even being responsible for an abortion. In 1999, a series of connected
Jon Sorensen had Catholic roots, but drifted into atheism for many years before meeting his wife, a faithful Catholic. She began to connect him with conversations that took him past
As a young man, Kailash Duraiswami had left behind his Hindu roots for a hedonistic lifestyle after finding success in Silicon Valley, and his future wife Lily’s struggles to understand
Jeffrey Shott grew up fundamentalist Baptist, but by high school, he had become an angry atheist, who even got a scholarship from an atheist organization for publicly mocking Christianity. He
Marc Lozano was raised Catholic, but complained so much about going to Mass that his family stopped participating in the life of the Church. He became a convinced atheist, and
Dr. Jennifer Frey grew up in a moral family, but her parents rejected organized religion because of their negative personal and political experiences, and she herself became a convinced atheist
Christine Flynn wasn’t raised with faith, but her family was loving and instilled strong values in her. Her experiences with Christians in middle in high school made her extremely negative
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