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
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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
Being raised in a loving LDS home and encouraged to see God’s plan and love in everything, when I was 19 and in college, I felt God suggesting that I
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
[On December 6, 2020, the Feast of St. Nicholas, my wife and I entered into full communion with the Catholic Church. While there is no simple way to explain how
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
I was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church for over thirty years before becoming Catholic. This is a small regional denomination with its headquarters in my home state of
On the first Sunday of Advent in 2017, when I went to a Catholic Mass for the first time, becoming a Catholic was the last thing on my mind. The