My Conversion Story

My gracious friends at Word on Fire asked me to share my conversion story on their blog. They’re posting conversion stories weekly in promotion of a new study guide for Fr. Barron’s “Conversion” DVD, and so far, Carl Olson and J.W. Blakely have submitted some excellent stories. I’m honored to contribute, as Fr. Barron is one of my greatest spiritual heroes and Word on Fire has long had my admiration.

I haven’t really written about my conversion before, primarily because I’ve always found it difficult to describe why I converted to Catholicism–not because I don’t have an answer, but because I have too many answers.

As Chesterton said, “(t)he difficulty of explaining “why I am a Catholic” is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.” In my Word on Fire conversion story, I explore just a handful of the instruments God has used to draw me deeper into him and his Church.

So, check out my conversion story, and be sure to subscribe to the excellent Word on Fire blog.