I was raised in an Evangelical family by parents who taught us to love and cherish the Word of God. When I got older, however, I began to have intellectual problems with the theology in which I had been raised. Because all my friends and family were also Evangelical Christians, I didn’t know where else to go, so I became one of the many who identify as “spiritual but not religious.”

During college, I discovered Lutheranism and found a historical and intellectual Christianity that answered the doubts and objections I had had about Evangelicalism. For three years I was happy. Then I began to attend a Catholic university for graduate work, and suddenly I was confronted with the reality that Catholicism was not at all what I thought. In fact, everything I thought I knew was wrong.

My curiosity was sparked and I began looking for resources to help me understand what Catholicism actually taught. It was then that I discovered Word on Fire and Bishop Barron’s YouTube videos. When I asked a professor to recommend a book on Catholic beliefs, he suggested Bishop Barron’s Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith. From there I utilized every Word on Fire resource I could find, as well as other Catholic apologetics, and before I knew it, I had been utterly convinced.

And when I had to explain to my skeptical parents why I was converting, I used the CATHOLICISM DVD series to introduce them to my new faith. I was finally received into the Catholic Church in September of 2016, and am eternally grateful to the good Bishop for the invaluable role he and this organization played in my coming home.

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