I grew up as a nominally practicing Christian in the Methodist tradition. My family would go to church for short periods, then not attend again for a while. I had
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My conversion to the Catholic Faith wasn’t a straight line exactly — is it ever? But it also didn’t take me years and years of my life to come to
I was born into a Baptist family, but we didn’t go to church much, except on Christmas, Easter, and a few other times each year. My uncle Vernon, who was
“Our team of elders met, and they decided unanimously to make you an elder.” I had wondered why my pastor wanted to get together with me one-on-one, and now I
The following interview was conducted by Mike Ford. His blog can be found online at godislovechristianblog.wordpress.com. Kelly Nieto grew up in church, yet her mother was an atheist. Her father had
Buddhist Family in China I came from a Buddhist family. My devout mother had a prayer room in our house. In that special room, she had an altar with different
I’ve been “home” for a couple of years now. “Home?” One might ask? Were you gone? Well, yes, I was gone. I was gone from the Church. I left what
My parents were children of the Great Depression. They married in 1941 and started a family during the Second World War. Our family was neither rich nor poor; we had
I was not your typical college student; I didn’t follow the crowd. When many people go to college they also stop going to church and start going to bars and
I was baptized Catholic as an infant. My family, however, did not practice the Catholic Faith. Instead, I came to know Jesus through the Nazarene Church, which formed my early
Matthew “Catholics are not saved and probably are not Christians” — an ignorant statement, but it is an accurate summary of my “knowledge” about Catholicism as a child. My father,
I grew up in a lower middle class home on Long Island in the 1960’s and 70’s. My father was of German descent and the youngest of ten children. My