Kathleen Lundquist on American Public Radio
Kathleen Lundquist, convert, musician, and sometime poster/commenter here on ID, wrote a short piece
for the American Public Radio's Mapping the Landscape of Catholic Voices.
Great job, Kathie! Great picture too!
"I am a convert to the Catholic faith from evangelicalism, and I was drawn by several things:
- The historical continuity of the Church in its interactions with culture.
- The beauty of Church art, music, architecture, and liturgy.
- The elegance, balance, and logic of Catholic theology."
posted by Sherry W @ 10:28 AM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Would somebody, Sherry? Kathy? anybody, in say about 500 words, do a piece on why it is that so many of the best public apologists for the Catholic Church (in the English speaking world) are converts from the ranks of Protestant Evangelicanism - or does such a short pithy piece already exist on line.
Steve Sparrow
Great question, Steve. I'm sure there are cradle Catholic apologists, too, but they've probably undergone a reawakening of their faith at some point in time.
I would guess that in both cases, their own personal intellectual objections had to be overcome - and were overcome - by a more nuanced understanding of Scripture, Tradition, Apostolic authority, Liturgy, etc. Because they asked these questions for themselves and sought answers, they're now offering answers to the same and other objections.
Fr. Mike's got it, at least in my case.
In my former life as an evangelical, I spent lots of my adult life learning and speaking the language of both the religious and secular cultures, 'cause from a Protestant perspective, to call yourself an 'evangelical' means you identify with Christians who evangelize, i.e. a community whose activity and mission is focused on the world outside the church, a Christian group that's by definition engaged with the wider culture.
I discovered in Catholicism the wider, broader, deeper Christian reality that is the Church, and so since my conversion I still find myself motivated to talk to the wider culture about it. The words I choose sound to some like "pidgin Catholic", but somehow they seem to make sense to adult spiritual seekers. :)
Thanks to you both for your encouragement!
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