{"id":2882,"date":"2007-02-19T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T08:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/blogging-candidates-and-catechumens.html"},"modified":"2007-02-19T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T08:24:03","slug":"blogging-candidates-and-catechumens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/blogging-candidates-and-catechumens.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Candidates and Catechumens?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago when blogging first exploded, there were several candidates for Full Communion and catechumens who blogged their way through the process. Since Lent is approaching, I was wondering if there were many folks doing the same this year. If you know of any – or even of any recent converts who have blogged their stories, please post them in the comments box.<\/p>\n

Et tu, Jen?<\/a> is our first suggestion…<\/p>\n

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When I was 26, I had never once believed in God. Raised entirely without religion by two parents with math\/ engineering backgrounds, I thought that those silly "God" fairy tales were absurd and assumed that every intelligent, logical, scientific person thought the same. After a few years in the Bible Belt I developed a deep dislike of Christianity and became very anti-Christian. Imagine my surprise to find myself today, just three years later, on the way to becoming an orthodox, practicing Catholic. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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