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The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. There, her partner rehabilitated abandoned and abused dogs. In the community, Rosaria was...

mother, as she was fond of reminding me, turned to me one morning as we were having coffee at my kitchen table before our weekly farmer’s market journey and said: “Why Jesus? Why not Buddha? Or Yoga? Why did you surrender your life to the God in whose name so much harm has been done to gay people?” Indeed. Why Jesus? I was so tossed about by what I was hearing that I learned, in spite of my pride, to pray. I had stopped writing my book on the Religious Right because I couldn’t talk myself into believing