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March 2015

March 28, 2015

How to Not Become a Catholic, A Convert’s Guide

As a Protestant convert to Catholicism whose journey culminates a week from today, at the...

March 19, 2015

What I Wish I’d Known About Catholics (And Why I’m Becoming One Now That I Do)

This Easter I become a Catholic. It's been a strange, unexpected journey. Something I often...

March 14, 2015

Why Creflo Dollar Made Me a Catholic

Prosperity Gospel Mega-Church Pastor Creflo Dollar is in the news again. This time it's for...

February 2015

February 17, 2015

Lent: My Final Forty Days as a Protestant

This year my Lenten experience is going to be weird. At Easter, baring supernatural intervention,...

February 12, 2015

Why I Stopped Debating and Started Living Like a Catholic

It was a friend from elementary school, a guy I hadn't seen in some fifteen...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

A New Way of Thinking

Somewhere along the way I picked up this quote by Henri Nouwen and, lately, it's...

January 15, 2015

Where Else Can I Go? Becoming a Catholic, Or Not.

Ask my wife, I'm not always altogether emotionally stable. It's no secret. Sometimes I get...

January 09, 2015

The Truth is a Trap

The truth is a trap. I've recently devoured G.K. Chesterton's The Catholic Church and Conversion....

January 04, 2015

New Year’s Journey

There are times when I approach this monstrous topic, and this tiny blog, when I...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

The Common Thread of Conversion

As a Protestant fully on his way to a Catholic conversion one of chief sources...

December 20, 2014

A Protestant Deep in History

In my day job I'm a Kindergarten teacher. I hang out with 3 and 4-year...

December 01, 2014

What Sucks About the Catholic Church

Some days I don't want to be a Catholic anymore. Some days I'm not even...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

A System Designed to Fail

If you've been reading my conversion story from the beginning you'll know that my journey...

November 18, 2014

“It’s All Bosh, Except the Scrolls.”

David Ahlquist is the brother-in-law of the late, great Larry Norman---arguably one of God's greatest...

November 17, 2014

Being “Fair” to the Catholic Church

I'm on a G.K. Chesterton kick today. Chesterton, a Catholic convert from Anglicanism (and an...

November 16, 2014

The Collapse of Catholic Misconceptions

I was talking to a friend yesterday when I came to realize, from hearing someone...

November 04, 2014

A Thesis on Tradition

Pastor Dan had dropped a bomb, and left. He'd asked me, "What's more important the...

November 01, 2014

The Bible and Tradition

We saw a production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Stratford Festival a few...

October 2014

October 25, 2014

My Three Catholic Friends

Having spent some quality time with my Dutch Catholic priest Catholicism had, like I said,...

October 22, 2014

A Podcasting Priest

My first exposure to Catholicism came in the form of a podcast. It was, I...

October 22, 2014

Finding a Community

Over the past few months and years I've read a number of stories of Protestants...

October 21, 2014

Pentecostal and Non-Denominational

University, or college, is an incredibly formative time of life. In university you form friendships and make decisions...

October 17, 2014

The Slow Road to Rome

We were actually at the Vatican last year, in August. After a family cruise around the...