I am a convert to Catholicism from the world of Evangelical Protestantism. My conversion story is told in an article for Envoy (see link, below) and is, in a sense, the basis for all the other writing and speaking I do. I enjoy discussing apologetics from the perspective of Paul, who made himself “all things to all people” to win them to Christ. My approach is intensely ‘personalistic’ – concerned with the way in which we must become the embodiment of Truth in order to transfer a taste, a seed, a symbol of it to another person and trust God for the unfolding of that gift within him. I urge people to avoid methods of evangelism which attempt to convince on a purely intellectual level, and those which are expected to work with broad categories of persons. I am associated with the Apostles of the Interior Life, and with them teach that we prepare best to evangelize when we enter deeply into the life of prayer and the search for holiness. I am convinced that a Catholic can find, in love, some common ground with anyone if he will learn more about the wonder of the human person and condescend to be made quite small for his sake. My mottoes: “Being right doesn’t make us righteous”, and “Love Condescends”.

Lord of Flies