Jennifer Fitz was raised Catholic and felt pretty good about her formation, until she got to college and everything fell apart. For several years, she pondered questions of faith and
Mallory Smyth was raised in a strong Catholic family, but questions about the Church’s moral teaching, and her own frustration with bad parish experiences, led her to stop going to
Raised Catholic by his mother and grandmother, Mick Souza was one of the smallest kids in his neighborhood, so he began working out, winning every athletic competition he entered, and
Dr. Larry Chapp was raised Catholic, but his study of science as a kid led him to briefly consider himself as an atheist, before an encounter with Young Life in
Deacon Lou Aaron fell in love with the culinary arts from a young age, but being in that world often meant pretty much unlimited and unsupervised access to alcohol. It
Jim Wahlberg came from a big Catholic family in Boston. But while his brothers Mark and Donny were having successful careers in music in film, Jim was serving prison sentences
Doug and Dawn Doughan grew up in the same small town in Iowa, Doug in a large Catholic family, and Dawn in a large Methodist family. When their marriage started
Joelle Maryn had strong faith as a child, but when a house fire claimed the life of her sister a week before Christmas, she felt like that direct line she’d
James Beaumont was raised Catholic, but stopped practicing after high school. Kelli, on the other hand, was a devoted Methodist who loved the writings and heart of John Wesley. Early
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
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
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