“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…
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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…
We had taken a Martin Luther tour while living in Germany, and instantly I wanted to know about the times before him, what happened to bring about the Reformation and why it had to occur. What were the teachings of the Church, and why was Luther so against much of it? Who were his followers, and how did they change the Church? At the time, we had no idea that this constant investigation into the Christian past would eventually lead both us into the Catholic Church.
When my wife, Birgitta, and I announced publicly on March 9, 2014, that we were becoming Catholics, it was the end of a long process over many years. I was…
What does it mean to be a man? What is the key to happiness and fulfillment? I’ve always thought the ancient Greek philosophers were really onto something with their answer…
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