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
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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)
As a young man, I loved listening to Keith Green’s contemporary Christian album So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt. I laughed at the foolishness of the Israelites he described,
I was born to a Lutheran mother and a Catholic father, grew up in Bavaria, Germany, and was baptized Catholic as an infant. My parents divorced when I was nine
My earliest memory is my baptism. It was a Sunday morning in springtime, and I was four years old. I remember the unusual perspective of being at the front of
Faith to Fire I was a very prayerful little girl and was born and raised in the Catholic Faith. I grew up in a little town in New York state.
I grew up nominally Catholic, but my life actually started with a miracle. I was born in 1993 and seemed to be perfectly healthy. By the time I should have
If you had told me as a kid growing up in Dorchester, Massachusetts that I would be where I am today, I would not have believed you. I don’t think
I was born in Yonkers, New York, near the Bronx. My parents had immigrated from the Dominican Republic, my father in the 1960s and my mother in the 1970s. Both