Nick De La Torre was raised in a Catholic family and attended Catholic schools, but as a young man, he wandered quite a bit spiritually, from Protestant congregations where the
Frank Cronin was raised Catholic, but by college, had decided that religion wasn’t for intellectually serious people. After his wife had a born-again experience just a few days before their
Fr. Eric Roush didn’t grow up in a churchgoing family, although he did have a couple of Christian friends in high school. During his freshman year of college, while he
Marcus Peter grew up Catholic in Malaysia, but do to poor formation and the hypocrisy he saw among Catholics, he decided he was an atheist from a young age. He
Deacon Joe Calvert had experience of Baptist, Methodist and Christian Science communities growing up, but by the time he got to college, he had decided that Christianity was for the
Dr. Alicia Thompson wasn’t raised with any kind of religious formation, but when she went to med school to train to be an OB/GYN, she felt an increasing sense of
On a special roundtable edition of The Journey Home, Marcus Grodi welcomes former atheists Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, FSP and Leah Libresco Sargeant to discuss why they were atheists in
John Leyendecker’s parents didn’t raise him in any sort of faith, and when his dad died of a heart attack, John got into lots of trouble at school, eventually dropping
Patrick Flynn was baptized Catholic, but not very well-formed in the faith, so when he began to discover atheist writers like Nietzsche and Ayn Rand, he was drawn to their
Though she didn’t have any kind of religious formation growing up, by the time she’d reached middle school, Leah Libresco Sargeant was interested in philosophy and virtue, specifically stoicism and
Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, FSP, was raised in a strong Catholic family, but witnessing hypocrisy among Christians and trying to make sense of suffering led her to ultimately reject the
As a kid growing up Baptist, Stacy Trasancos was fascinated with God’s creation, and wanted to become a scientist. But as her studies led her to more of a materialist
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