By Lynn Robin Miller I grew up Jewish in a Roman Catholic neighborhood. Prayer was still allowed in public schools, and I watched other children cross themselves, not understanding what they were doing, but imitating them just to fit in. The only thing I knew about...
By Hans Hallundbaek My childhood was somber. I was born in Denmark into the darkness, doom, and financial hardship of the Great Depression. The aftershocks of the collapse of the stock market in 1929 still had my country in its grip, and even more so, our poor farming...
By Derek Isetti The story of my discovery of the Course is rather unconventional. My parents divorced when I was 2. I lived with my mom up through the 5th grade. She was a non-traditionalist, grew up in the 60s, attended college in San Francisco, was open-minded and...
By LaVoice Kallestad My life before the Course was not necessarily “bad,” but there was a shallowness. Growing up, I was very involved in the Baptist church. My mother made sure that we were at church every time the door opened. However, in college, church was no...
By Ann Freeman My background is Catholic. For years, I used to go to mass every day and loved it. Daily mass offered me peace and escape in its quiet, sparsely attended services, and I truly felt a spiritual connection with God while I was there. As I walked out the...
By Karla Middlebrooks I have always had a rich spiritual life and I credit my great grandmother, my grandparents, and my parents for laying the foundation. My spiritual influences were the writings of James and Myrtle Fillmore (founders of the Unity movement) and a...
By Valentine Laout My parents were born and raised Catholic. My father wanted to be a missionary, so instead of going to high school, he went straight into the seminary. It was not what he expected. He became disillusioned, and, after a few years, he dropped out. With...
By Maginel Galt I grew up without any religion, but I always felt I was seeking something that offered a mystical experience within spirituality. I initially came to faith as a Protestant in my early 20s after my mother's untimely death. I came to the Catholic faith...
By James Gregory I was born and raised Catholic in the 1950s. My upbringing was what you would expect for the time: I went to church with my family every weekend, attended Catholic grade school and Catholic high school, served as an altar boy, and even considered...
By Michele M. My parents were devout Irish Catholics. Early in my childhood, I learned that their religious beliefs were not open to question. If the Church said something was to be a certain way, then it was that way. That was how they were raised, and although they...
By Bryan Hebert I was raised Roman Catholic, but I can’t talk about my religious background without sharing my cultural background. I was born in southern Louisiana, the heart of Cajun country, the friendliest, most caring, most fun-loving people you will ever meet....
By Helen Brown I have always been curious about spiritual things. I grew up in a dysfunctional family with lots of arguing, yelling and heavy-handed discipline. I remember talking to God in my bed, looking up at the ceiling and hoping that He heard my cries for help....
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