{"id":4865,"date":"2025-02-11T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:49:23","slug":"the-call-to-continual-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/2025\/02\/the-call-to-continual-conversion.html","title":{"rendered":"The Call to Continual Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I recently had the chance to sit down with JonMarc Grodi of the Coming Home Network and discuss a bit of my own journey of faith, looking at how I began as a Protestant Christian and stumbled my way into the Catholic Church nearly 12 years ago. Today they released a bit of our conversation and if you\u2019re interested in listening to it, I wanted to post a link to it.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth time I\u2019ve had a chance to sit down with the team at the Coming Home Network to record content and I\u2019m always surprised how much my heart goes out to this work. Leaving Protestant ministry and becoming a Catholic was the single most difficult decision I have ever made in my life and yet it\u2019s proven to be the best decision that I\u2019ve ever made.<\/p>\n<p>There are many difficulties that come with becoming Catholic and what that journey looks like for each person is going to be different, however, I\u2019ve been amazed by the graces that the Church offers in its teaching, in its call to moral clarity and courage, in its depth of spiritual guides and rich prayer. 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