{"id":9623,"date":"2015-04-22T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2015-04-22T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:44:11","slug":"we-cant-help-ourselves-why-a-former-jewish-agnostic-and-current-progressive-christian-still-like-catholicism-im-in-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/04\/we-cant-help-ourselves-why-a-former-jewish-agnostic-and-current-progressive-christian-still-like-catholicism-im-in-this.html","title":{"rendered":"“We can’t help ourselves: Why a former Jewish agnostic and current progressive Christian still like Catholicism”: I’m in this!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Part one of an exchange between me and Alicia de los Reyes at Patheos Progressive Christian. \u201cWe can\u2019t help ourselves\u201d is not a bad summary of one part of the gospel (the First Step part), also\u2026.<\/p>\n

Many of you may know Eve Tushnet from her blog<\/a> here on Patheos, where she writes about being gay, celibate, and Catholic (along with\u00a0World Figure Skating Championship costumes<\/a>\u00a0and other events of note). Eve grew up \u201csomewhere between agnostic and Jewish\u201d and converted to Catholicism when she was a sophomore in college.<\/p>\n

I did\u00a0the inverse: I was raised firmly Catholic and started drifting away from \u201cthe Church\u201d in college, when I just couldn\u2019t stomach my church\u2019s position on women priests and gay marriage, among other things, and eventually ended up at a social-justice-oriented spiritual community.<\/p>\n

I thought it would be fun to talk about why, despite our seemingly large hurdles (background, political beliefs, sexuality), we still really like the Catholic Church. (Even though my new church is Methodist, I still say that I was \u201craised Catholic.\u201d) And a bit about why, even though we like it, it occasionally drives\/drove us crazy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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