“What can I do but trust God?” I said that aloud when I was 10 years old, as I closed the Bible I was reading. What happened to me that
“I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in
I parked my car at the church and sat with my thoughts for a while. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this meeting to which I had been summoned.
I was born in 1984 in São Paulo, Brazil, the younger of two children. In 1990, we moved to a neighboring city to live in a nice condominium. My first
When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the fact is, the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart
I was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to a Baptist family. I had two devout Baptist grandmothers, one Catholic grandfather, and one mostly unchurched grandfather, who late in life told me
We lived in the house in Vermont that my parents and extended family built for the number of children they had at the time — three — with two and
I grew up in New England in a nominally Christian home. My father was a lapsed Catholic who married my mother, a lapsed Methodist. In the Beginning, God… When they
I was born in 1960 and moved to the far-southwest side of Chicago when I was three. My parents are both Jewish, so of course, I was raised Jewish. There
I was born on November 24, 1989 and quickly swept into the loving arms of Crestview Baptist Church in Midland, Texas — the buckle of the Bible Belt and the
I was raised to be a Bad Catholic. Before I elaborate, I want to be completely clear about two things: I have never doubted the sincerity of my parents’ and
I was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1973 and lived there until I started college in 1991. My parents were Muslims, and my religious education began early. When I was