“Gregory was a great and conspicuous lamp, illuminating the church of God.” —Basil the Great Parents today sometimes worry that their children will go off to college and return as converts to some strange, new religion. That’s exactly what happened 1,700 years ago to Gregory of Pontus (named Theodore at his birth), only the strange, new religion was Christianity. Born into an affluent pagan family in Neocaesarea (in modern