Coming Home Newsletter Archive

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Featured Conversion Story: “The Payment of a Debt of Gratitude 40 Years Later” – by Paul Abbe (former Lutheran pastor; pro-life/contraception)

“My Dear Brother and Friend: Part III – A Letter from Father John Thayer” – by Marcus Grodi

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Featured Conversion Story: “Lead, kindly Light” – by Fr. Douglas Grandon (former Pentecostal, Evangelical Free Church minister, and Episcopal priest)

“My Dear Brother and Friend: Part II – A Letter from Father John Thayer” – by Marcus Grodi (on Tradition and Apostolic authority)

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Featured Conversion Story: “Race With The Devil: A Journey from the Hell of Hate to the Well of Mercy” – by Joseph Pearce (former Neo-Nazi and atheist)

“My Dear Brother and Friend: Part I – A Letter from Father John Thayer” – by Marcus Grodi

Reflections on and reviews of the CHN Deep in History conference by past participants

Quo Vadis news

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Announcing the 6th Annual Deep in History Conference: “Battle for the Faith: The Denominalization of America – 1700 – 1900” (including speaker profiles, schedule, emblem description, and a reflection on the conference topic by Marcus Grodi)

“Clergy on the Journey: Scholarship Fund” – by Jim Anderson

“Helping ‘em Home” – by Robert Rodgers

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Featured Conversion Story: “Receiving Christ” – by Joshua D. Johnson” (former Methodist minister)

“Announcement of the Fellowship of  St. Edmund Campion” – by Marcus Grodi (financial help for former ordained Protestant pastors while they discern the Catholic priesthood)

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Featured Conversion Story: “Receiving Christ” – by Joshua D. Johnson” (former member of a Holiness Church and Baptist; on suffering and healing)

“Too Busy” – by Marcus Grodi (on squandering privileges)

Schedule of Pope Benedict XVI’s 2008 visit to America

Quo Vadis news

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Featured Conversion Story: “Plumbing the Truths of Christ’s Church” – by Rob Evans, the “Donut Man” (former Evangelical Christian; Christian children’s musician and TV personality)

“Changed But Still Changing” – by Marcus Grodi (reflections on 1 Timothy 3:6 and why the Bible and the Catholic Church warn against ordaining new converts)

Coming Home Network Statistics: Residences of Primary members by U.S. state and nation

Quo Vadis news

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Featured Conversion Story: “A Homecoming” – by Dee Dee Griffey (wife of a former Southern Baptist pastor)

“Conversion Means Sacrifice” – by Marcus Grodi (on the sacrifices of today’s converts to the Catholic Church)

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Featured Conversion Story: “A Heratage of Faith” – by Patrick Vossen (former Non-denominational minister)

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Featured Conversion Story: “Slipping the Surly Bonds of Earth” – by Craig Cowley (former Presbyterian and Air Force Protestant Chaplain) 

An article by Marcus Grodi (on emotional prejudice against the Church and the adjustment to Catholic authority)

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Featured Conversion Story: “To Whom Shall I Go?” – by Robin Peterson-Lund (former  Presbyterian and Air Force Protestant Chaplain) 

“What Does it Mean to Believe?” – by Marcus Grodi (on not just being convinced of the Catholic teachings, but believing them; Eucharist & John 6)

More information about the 2007 Deep in History Conference speakers

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Featured Conversion Story: “Musings of a Catholic Convert: A Former Southern Baptist Pastor Finds Forgiveness, Hope, and Assurance through the Catholic Church” – by Andy McNutt

“Martin Luther’s Devotion to Mary” – by Dave Armstrong (Martin Luther was still rather conservative on many of his beliefs, including devotion to Mary)

“From the Office of the Pope” (Question & answers with Pope Benedict XVI, including information on the Second Vatican Council, ecumenical relations, and separated Christian brethren)