I was raised in what I often describe as a non-churchgoing Christian home. My mother read to us from the Bible, we lived out our Christian values, but rarely attended
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Three generations of my family were deacons in the Reformed church back in the 1500’s, at the time of Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin. And my granddad had a hymn
When people ask me about my decision to join the Catholic Church, I like to divide the question into two. There’s the question, “Why did you become Catholic?” Then there’s
Raised in the home of a United Methodist pastor in Iowa, I have loved Jesus for as long as I can remember. I gave my heart to Jesus at a
My story begins at a very long-standing, originally Puritan New England Congregational church in Wethersfield, Connecticut. My parents became members there when I was three years old, so I was
My journey from Baptist pastor to Catholic convert was an amazing, agonizing one, with numerous twists and turns along the way. From the outset, I want to say that I
In June 1990, having been accepted by an independent mission agency, and with the blessing of our pastor and members of our independent charismatic church, we sold our furniture, gave
I remember always loving the cross. Growing up in a beach town near Los Angeles in the sixties and seventies, my three siblings and I seemed unlikely to live a
The Early Years I am the second of four children raised in a home with an alcoholic father. His verbal and physical abuse of the entire family only ended when
Anyone who has had any kind of experience with Mormons would probably say they are kind, sincere, wholesome people, and very sure that they are right. I was one of
I was born in Massachusetts on September 18, 1982. My mother was a Muslim from Pakistan. Her mother was pious and her father nominal. In 1975, she emigrated to the
I grew up in a cultural, not religious, Reform Jewish home in northern New Jersey. We went to Temple two times a year, on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year)