Coming Home Newsletter Archive

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Featured Conversion Story: “Following God: Jesus Loves Me This I Know” – by Marian Prentice (former Baptist, Free Methodist, Nazarene, and international and prison missionary)

“500 Years after the Wittenburg Door” – by Jim Anderson (“By God’s grace, Jim Anderson  — CHNetwork’s Senior Advisor and long-time coordinator of our ministry with non-Catholic clergy — is sojourning for an extended period in Germany. This is opportune, for it provides us with “eyes on the ground” to share reflections on the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation — and its impact on us today.”)

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Featured Conversion Story: “Love that Never Cease” – by Jerry Cleffi (former Greek Orthodox and ordained Assemblies of God ministers and missionaries)

“What Must I Do to Be Saved?” – by Marcus Grodi (reflection on John 3:16)

“Welcome Brother Rex!” Brother Rex Anthony Norris, a Franciscan hermit, is the newest addition to the Coming Home Network support team

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Featured Conversion Story: “Lead Kindly Light…in the footsteps of Blessed John Henry Newman” – by Fr. Anthony Aarons MSM (former Anglo-catholic)

“Catholic Church: Reality and Ideal” – by Thomas Storck

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Featured Conversion Story: “A Heart’s Journey” – by Kathryn J. Betournay, D.Min. (former atheist, ordained Protestant pastor, and United Church of Christ member)

“Five Conversions” – by Marcus Grodi (reflections on personal conversions in Marcus’ life)

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Featured Conversion Story: “Back Home” – by Randall Ory (Catholic revert and former Church of Christ)

“Luke 14: An Examination of Conversion” – by Marcus Grodi

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Featured Conversion Story: “A ‘Convoluted’ Pathway Home” – by Peter Doane (Catholic revert and formerly involved with Congregational Church, Charismatic Movement, and Shepherding Movement)

“The Wisdom of Hindsight: What We Can Learn from the Experience of Fr. John Thayer” – by Marcus Grodi

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Featured Conversion Story: “The Eucharist Will Satisfy the Longing Heart” – by Brent Stubbs (former Pentecostal)

“O Felix Culpa!” – by Fr. Ray Ryland (reflections on the fall of Adam)  

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Featured Conversion Story: “Surprised by Truth….and Beyond” – by Kevin Lowry (former Presbyterian)

“So You’re Thinking About Becoming Catholic?” – by Kevin Lowry (run-down of the first steps in becoming Catholic)

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Featured Conversion Story: “Cradle Mennonite to Roman Catholic” – by Harold Wenger

“Breaches Revisited” – by Marcus Grodi (Marcus revisits his private writings as a Presbyterian pastor, prior to having his first Catholic “awakening” and reflects on the “breaches” in his defenses against Catholicism)

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Featured Conversion Story: “My Journey Home – In God’s Timing” – by Mary Stevanus

“I Wanted to Write” – by Marcus Grodi (reflections on how we can reach non-Catholic family and friends)

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Featured Conversion Story: “Hauled Aboard the Ark” – by Dr. Peter Kreeft (former agnostic and Calvinist)

“What is God’s Will for my—for OUR lives?” – by Marcus Grodi (7 clues from Marcus Grodi)

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Featured Conversion Story: “Crossing the Tiber” – by Steve Ray (former Baptist)

“Defragging Our Minds” – by Marcus Grodi (“…which information is less so and therefore subordinate; and which information should be cast aside as unnecessary or untrustworthy or downright destructive to my life and soul?”)