As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.

I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.