I was born in the late 1960’s to a father who was a devout Southern Baptist and to a mother who was Jewish. Before my birth and in the first
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It started with a phone call from my son one summer’s evening. “Mum, do you mind if I become a Catholic?” I was taken aback…. Being an Evangelical Christian at the time, I had received some negative teaching over the years about Catholicism.
Sylvia Rummel was born into the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. As a Mormon, Sylvia met her husband, a fallen-away Catholic priest. Little did either of them know, their joint journey would lead them home to the Catholic Church.
I was brought up in an Italian Catholic home. I don’t recall going to church with my family as a child, but my grandmother was always praying and taught me
Unlike many of my fellow Reformed pastors and thinkers, I never had the time, energy, or interest in Catholic bashing. At Bates College in Maine, pursuing a BA in Philosophy,
Suddenly wet and amused by the mystery of it all, how did I find myself in the Tiber stroking against the currents toward Rome? I had no intention of becoming
I always believed I was special and that my life had been touched by God, even before I was ever born. My mother was so big when she was pregnant
Before Finding Christianity I didn’t grow up in church and never went consistently until I was twenty-three years old. I attended church only a handful of times growing up and
Since my childhood, I always loved C.S. Lewis’ stories about the adventures in Narnia. It was stories like the ones about Narnia that helped me realize that this was the way we usually come to understand the real and true things of life. As I began to wonder about who God is, I got introduced to characters such as Aslan, Mr. Tumnus, and Lucy. Through stories told creatively and beautifully, I came to not just know but also love the goodness and truth concerning God.
Early years My (Jeff) parents provided a loving home for my four siblings and for me. We grew up on a small, working horse farm in Michigan’s thumb area. Our
An Alaskan cruise introduced ordained Methodist minister Frank Johnson to the world of Orthodox Christianity. After being chrismated in the Greek Orthodox Church, the election of Pope Benedict XVI made Johnson question the lack of unity among Orthodox churches.
My mainline Presbyterian upbringing in southern New Jersey in the 1950s and ‘60s was typical of many others at the time. The people in our church tended to be white
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