Editor’s note: This two-part series explores why some evangelicals have chosen to convert to other branches of Christianity, namely Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Read part 1 here.
The first time Jon Schweppe remembers palpably experiencing the manifest presence of God was at a Roman Catholic Mass, in what proved to be an unusual yet ultimately irresistible divine encounter.
For the 32-year-old Midwesterner turned D.C.-area policy director for the American Principles Project, faith was something that his family always took seriously, particularly as his father was a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. His dad was a theologically orthodox minister in an otherwise liberal mainline denomination.
He called his upbringing in this particular faith “a liturgical tradition with really good hymns,” in a recent interview with The Christian Post as part of its two-part series about former evangelical Protestants who instead of leaving faith behind, as some have done, have traveled down a more ancient road. You can read part one…
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