I was baptized Christmas Eve 2001. I was six years old, and my family was very active in our local Baptist church in Largo, FL. We were members of a
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God began working in my life the day I was born in Columbus, GA. It was 1946 and my mother had a distressed pregnancy. The doctor wondered if she would
Midway through my life’s journey, I saw the lights of a police car in my rear view mirror. I managed to get to the side of the road and go
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
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