Matthew Levering was not raised in any particular faith, but his mom was a seeker. They had some experience of Quaker congregations, but more as a social movement than a religious one.
It was actually through reading fiction from Dostoevsky and Walker Percy and others that Matthew began to find himself developing something resembling a Christian worldview. In college, those questions were explored more deeply, leading him first to Christianity in general, which he looked into at the library at Duke Divinity School, and later to its fulness and completion in the Catholic Church.