Jennifer was raised Christian, but by middle school had decided that religion was a stupid thing for stupid people. As an exchange student in Austria, she began to be intrigued by Catholic culture, but still saw it as outdated and superstitious.
While studying Marxism in East Germany at Karl Marx University, it gave her a realization she needed to have a b ... Show More
Nov 4
Eben Emerson - Former Church of Christ Minister
Eben Emerson, a former Church of Christ minister and missionary, was originally on The Journey Home in 2011. In the decade and a half since that, Eben has some powerful insights to share about common mistakes new converts make, many of which are lessons he himself learned the har ... Show More
1 h
Oct 28
Susan Sucher - Former Pentecostal
Although raised Methodist, Susan Sucher began attending an Assemblies of God youth group in her teens, which is where her faith really took off. As she and her husband were discerning marriage, they were also processing together some of the inconsistencies they’d been noticing in ... Show More
1 h
Jan 2025
Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)
In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America (Cornell UP, 2020), Theresa Keeley analyzes the role of intra-Catholic conflict within the framework of U.S. foreign policy formulation and execution during the Reagan administ ... Show More
44m 24s
May 2022
Young Catholics Respond - Alicia Hartle & Msgr. Joseph Malagreca
Bill Snyder talks with Alicia Hartle, Executive Director of Pentecost Today USA, and Msgr. Joseph Malagreca, Coordinator of the CHARIS National Service of Communion for the USA about how Charis is helping to breathe new life into the Catholic Charismatic...
Oct 2024
Is Buddhism the Path to Peace? with Sita Slavov
<b>Sita Slavov</b> is a professor at George Mason University. She grew up in a Hindu family in Houston, Texas. Over time, she explored different faiths, including Zen Buddhism, and eventually embraced Christianity. She has a PhD in economics from Stanford University and now lives ... Show More
27m 3s
Mar 2018
Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva, “Mother of the Church” (Northern Illinois UP, 2016)
In Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016), Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva explores an influential figure in the history of Russian Catholicism. A Russian noblewoma ... Show More
52m 52s