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Journey Home
JonMarc Grodi and his guests address the personal obstacles, doctrinal objections, and the irresistible attraction to the Church Jesus founded 2,000 years ago.
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Jennifer Bryson - Former Agnostic
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,...
David and Roseanna White - Former Baptists
David and Roseanna White came from a strong Baptist faith, and Roseanna began a successful career writing Christian historical fiction, with David fou...
Eben Emerson
Eben Emerson, a former Church of Christ minister and missionary, was originally on The Journey Home in 2011.
In the decade and a half s...
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 sh...
Shane Page
Shane Page was raised in a United Methodist family in North Carolina, and went on to become an elder and a pastor in a congregation there, serving 18...
Heidi Hess Saxton - Former Protestant Church Musician
Heidi had a strong faith life, and went to Azusa Pacific hoping to do some kind of ministry. She was leading music at a Baptist church and preparing f...
Michael Garcia - Former United Pentecostal Pastor
Michael Garcia was baptized Catholic, but wandered a bit as a young man. When his brother got involved with a Oneness Pentecostal community, Michael w...
Bishop Earl Fernandes -Lifelong Catholic
It has been a longstanding tradition in the Coming Home Network, which is located in the Diocese of Columbus, to invite the sitting bishop to share hi...
Deacon Matt Halbach - Catholic Revert
Deacon Matt Halbach grew up Catholic but wasn’t very well formed. As a young man, he began to struggle with depression and anxiety, and was even think...
Joshua & Teresa Mangels - Former Assemblies of God Ministers
After beginning a personal relationship with Jesus as a teenager, Joshua Mangels felt a call to ministry and eventually became an Assemblies of God pa...
Bishop James Conley - Former Baptist and Presbyterian
Bishop James Conley was raised Presbyterian, and studied Applied Humanities at Kansas University in the 1970’s, falling in love with the Great Books....
Fr. Michael Nixon - Former Hare Krishna
Fr. Michael Nixon was born in Hawaii to parents who were Hare Krishnas. When he was in elementary school, his whole family became Catholic, which was...
Fr. Scott Wooten - Former Episcopal Priest
Fr. Scott Wooten grew up firmly Anglican, but attended Catholic school. As he continued toward ordination as an Episcopal priest, he persisted in the...
Dr. Matthew Wiseman
Dr. Matthew Wiseman was raised with strong Baptist roots, and even as a young child, he was constantly reading and studying the Bible. His family atte...
Rhonda Gruenewald - Former Agnostic
Rhonda Gruenewald fell in love with the Church through her husband, and went on to found Vocation Ministry, which equips diocese to promote and nurtur...
Dr. Michael Root - Former Lutheran
After working on ecumenism initiatives as a Lutheran, Dr. Michael Root’s convictions led him to Catholicism in 2010 where he continues to be an import...
Dr. Matthew Levering - Former Quaker
Matthew Levering found himself developing something resembling a Christian worldview through reading Dostoevsky and Walker Percy. This foundation led...
Keith and Tami Kiser - Former Presbyterians
While studying for ministry as a pastor, Keith Kiser and his wife met Scott Hahn in a Bible study. Shortly after they became Catholic and now lead you...
Fr. Brad Elliot, O.P. - Former Lutheran
Fr. Brad Elliott was raised Lutheran, and pursued formation in music, finding success as a jazz drummer.
Feeling compelled by beauty a...
Rae-Mi Leroy - Former Buddhist
Rae-Mi LeRoy was baptized Catholic, but never went to church. She had no experience with any particular faith until college, when she studied world re...
Eddie Trask - Catholic Revert, Former Evangelical Protestant
Eddie Trask was raised Catholic, but by college, had fallen away from his faith. When he came back to Christianity, it was through Evangelical and non...
Christopher O'Keefe - Former Mennonite Pastor
Christopher O’Keefe's faith journey led him to give his life to God in service, working in prison ministry, and eventually becoming an ordained pastor...
Justine Callis - Former Evangelical Protestant
Justine Callis was raised in a Christian home, and became a successful gymnast. Her athletic pursuits led her to Arizona, where she plugged into an Ev...
Mike Iversen - Former Evangelical Youth Minister
Mike Iversen came from an Evangelical background, and after getting degrees in English and Earth Science, he felt called to bring his skills to youth...
Fr. Andrew Crabtree - Former Evangelical Protestant
Fr. Andrew Crabtree grew up Baptist, but got involved in more nondenominational congregations as a young man. He began touring as a Christian musician...
Fr. Scott Woods - Former Evangelical Protestant
Fr. Scott Woods’ family wasn’t Catholic, but because they sent him to Catholic school, he developed some strong associations with Catholicism, and esp...
Rhonda Ortiz - Former Evangelical Protestant
Rhonda Ortiz had roots in Evangelical experience, including some in Pentecostalism, but a search for a Christian home during her college years led her...
Ashley Stinnett - Former Evangelical Protestant
Ashley Stinnett attended numerous Evangelical congregations growing up, and even explored RCIA in the early 2000’s before dropping out due to family m...
Lucas Koach - Former Anglican Priest
Lucas Koach came to faith as a teenager through Young Life, and pursued a call to ministry, entering Denver Seminary. That trajectory eventually led h...
Tsh Oxenreider - Former Evangelical and Anglican
Tsh Oxenreider was raised Evangelical, and even felt called to do missionary work, but her desire to grow deeper in her faith began to lead her toward...
Philip Seeberg - Convert From Judaism
Phillip Seeberg grew up in a Reformed Jewish household, but stopped attending synagogue after his Bar Mitzvah.
In college, he met some...
Debbie Capen
Debbie Capen came from a Catholic family, but was not well-formed in her faith. An unplanned pregnancy in college, followed by an abortion, led to a d...
Dr. Justus Hunter - Former Free Methodist
Justus Hunter’s dad was a Methodist pastor, and he himself decided to pursue academic study in theology, attending Asbury College and Seminary, where...
Sr. John Dominic Rasmussen, O.P. - Formerly Secular
Sr. John Dominic Rasmussen, O.P., grew up in Nashville, and her dad worked in the country music industry. Though not always serious about questions of...
Dr. Brian Duncan - Former Baptist Minister
Dr. Brian Duncan graduated high school early and went straight into Baptist ministry training. On fire for Jesus, he was constantly seeking deeper res...
Amanda Martin - Former Episcopalian
Amanda Martin came from a strong Christian background, and her husband became an Episcopalian priest. Not coming from a liturgical or sacramental Chri...
Fr. Doug Martin - Former Episcopal Priest
Fr. Doug Martin grew up in a Godly United Methodist family, but didn’t start taking a call to ministry seriously until college, where exposure to vari...
Deacon Lee Ashton - Former Evangelical and Episcopalian
Deacon Lee Ashton was raised Episcopalian, but when he joined the military, he felt a disconnection from that faith tradition, and began to search for...
Pro-Life Roundtable With Dr. John Bruchalski and Kerstin Pakka
Dr. John Bruchalski of Divine Mercy Care and Kerstin Pakka of Project Rachel in the Diocese of Toledo share the stories of how they came from believin...
Deacon Lester Loh - Former Agnostic
Deacon Lester Loh came from a Presbyterian family, but by early childhood was already completely tuned out of anything related to faith. Over the year...