My conversion story.
The best concise summary yet:
The Church Lost and Found
More detailed chapters:
- The Beginning of the Road
- The First Harbingers
- The Wilderness
- The Questioning
- The Wandering Road
- Approaching Rome
- My Pope
- A Musical Journey
- The Eternal City
- Seeing the Pope
- Off the Map
- The Damascus Road
- Like the Dewfall
- Resurrection Chapel: Or, God Makes a Home for the Lonely
- In the Vineyard
- Corpus Christi: The Latin Corpus of Christ; and the Real Schism (in my mind)
- The Sovereignty of God, or, My Brush with Calvinism, Part 1
- The Sovereignty of God, or, My Brush with Calvinism, Part 2: A Crisis of Faith
- Veritas
- Reading Church History as a Protestant: The Catholic Church, Dead in “Religion”
- Towards the Truth
- Oxford
- I went to Mass and didn’t like it: Faltering steps in my journey to the Church
- The signposts converge
- Grappling with Sola Scriptura, Part 1: Paralysis
- Grappling with Sola Scriptura, Part 2: Sources of Authority
- Grappling with Sola Scriptura, Part 3: An Authoritative Church
- Grappling with Sola Fide, Part 1
- Does Grace Give License to Sin? (Grappling with Protestant Theology)
- Sin: The Wound and the Remedy (Grappling with Protestant Theology)
I like how you’ve structured the story of your journey. I’ve been thinking about doing the same thing and I find this particular page of your website instructive and inspiring. Thanks!
Just finished this series. Between “Like the Dewfall” and “Resurrection Chapel”, you became Catholic. Is that post still forthcoming or did I miss it?
Thanks. I have jumped around a little bit. I tagged “Resurrection Chapel” as part of the series because it was very momentous in my journey! But I haven’t caught up to the part where I actually became Catholic yet. But if you’d like to read the posts I wrote when I actually became Catholic, they are tagged Holy Week.
Ah. Cool. Nice to know I’m at the edge of a developing storyline! May God bless and keep you in your work.
“I want to see the church get closer to the people, I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures, because these need to get out.” – Pope Francis.
Hey, I’m just thinking of you as I show some love on facebook to the Pope. He is winning over my heart. Sorry, I didn’t know how to just message you. Blessings.
No problem. This is always good. But my e-mail is joseph.t.richardson@gmail.com.
And yes, he’s winning over everybody’s heart. 🙂