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We have so many diverse personalities within this forum, I decided to create an individual "home" for as many faiths as I could come up with. This one is for the Christians among us.. of all traditions. This is your chance to show us your beliefs and get feedback in return.

Love and Light..

As a Christian, what is the most important part of your faith? What led you into Christianity?

Since I'm a converted Catholic, we know that the most important part of our faith is the Eucharist.

I was raised Protestant and was luke warm at best until I married my Catholic husband. Our children were raised Catholic and it took me almost 20 years to convert. I had issues (birth control, reconciliation) that kept me from total acceptance of the Catholic faith.

Since my conversion, I love everything about it. It just seems so right to me. I've started reading "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren which should be on every Christian's "to read" list.

Hi Imac, Actually I just picked up a copy of that book for a Christian friend of mine.. fanastic insights!!

Just out of curiousity if you don't mind answering.. How did you know that you were ready to convert when you did? Was it an easing up of the policies of the church or was it something else?

Love and Light...

Well, the church hasn't eased up on the biggies...men only as priests, abortion, birth control, homosexuality.

Like I said, I had some issues in my thinking to resolve first like birth control, which I can very easily explain the Catholic church's position on this, reconcilation (I didn't want to tell someone else my sins) and abortion.

The late Archibishop Fulton Sheen said it best...there are millions of people in the world who hate Catholics for what they think Catholics are...and only a handful who hate Catholics for what we really are.

Hi Imac
I think it's a drastic decision in anybody life to convert religion. Anyway, what was your family (parents, sibling) reaction when they know you accept Catholic?

Well, my dear Protestant Grandmother (rest her soul) probably flipped in her grave. She once broke up my uncle's engagment to a Catholic girl, merely because she was Catholic. She and my future husband back then used to have some pretty heated debates.

Most of the rest of my family isn't very religious from a "go to church and be involved" standpoint so we don't discuss it much. When I visit them (they live about 500 miles away) and I tell them that we'll go out to dinner after Mass, I get the old eye roll, but I don't care.

I just keep praying that maybe some of it will rub off.

Hi Imac..

I can totally relate to the eye roll..:). Even though my Grandmother on my father's side was a Pagan, my mother's side of the family are all very steeped in Quaker or Baptist belief.

My father's side of the family are mostly deceased, except for a few stray cousins, but I live amid the remainder of my mother's family. My mother was a dedicated and well loved member of her church, up to her ears in planning and the head of most of the committees. So, when I moved back to Connecticut, it was more or less assumed that when she passed away shortly after I arrived, I would take up the reigns and continue on with the work.

Of course, that didn't happen, and now most of that side of the family avoids me. When I do show up at family gatherings.. I get a fair share of eyerolls also.

Love and Light..

Jellyfish ~

I'm a little confused. Most of your mother's side eyerolls? Aren't you all of the same ilk?...Quaker and Baptist?

I just try to be tolerant of the ones in my family who are the funeral and wedding church goers. I don't push...unless they want to debate an issue. And then they wish they'd never asked.

Hi Imac..

I am a Pagan like my paternal Grandmother.. I didn't follow either the Quaker or the Baptist side. Well, actually I am a Pagan, Unitarian Universalist Buddhist based Community Minister... That is why the eyerolls.

Love and Light...