Dr. Leroy Huizenga was baptized Catholic, but raised Lutheran, and had his first real personal encounter with Christ in his teens. He decided to pursue a degree in theology, and
Though Katie Wing had been raised Catholic, when she became a spiritual seeker as a young woman, she felt more drawn to Eastern philosophies and spiritualities. Eventually, she came back
Keith Little grew up in Canada and attended the United Church, but eventually discovered a real relationship with Jesus as a young man. In the theological debates he had through
Oscar Herrera was baptized Catholic, but by the time he was 5 years old, his family had become Jehovah’s Witnesses. That community became everything to him, and by age 9,
John Carmichael was raised Catholic, but remembers more about his grandmother’s practice of the faith than that of his parents. His mother struggled with alcoholism, which deeply impacted John’s childhood,
Laura Richards was raised Catholic, and when she became pregnant as a teenager, she gave her son up for adoption. Through her adult life, she remained a semi-practicing Catholic, until
Sue Neugebauer’s parents were Jews who survived Nazi persecution in Hungary, and had Sue baptized as a baby, not out of personal conviction, but as a matter of self-preservation. During
Mark Neugebauer’s father was a Polish Holocaust survivor, and his mother a Russian Jew whose family had suffered under pogroms, so he was raised with a strong Jewish identity. However,
Matthew Akers was raised a fundamentalist Christian, while his wife, Elisabeth, grew up in an Episcopalian household. After Matthew graduated from a Reformed Episcopal seminary, he and Elisabeth met and
Jennifer Kern grew up a dyed-in-the-wool Calvinist. She even considered carrying tulips down the aisle at her wedding in honor of John Calvin’s 5 point T.U.L.I.P. doctrine! Her husband felt
Kendra Clark became serious about her Mormon faith as a student at BYU, and was drawn in particular to the figure of Jesus Christ. This fascination eventually caused her to
Growing up, Roger Salstrom’s dad almost never went to church, but Roger’s mother took him and his siblings every Sunday. Roger continued through life as a committed Christian, even going
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