Always Protestant converts. Not a single cradle Catholic or EO in the group.

Dear Pastor Spencer:

Somebody directed me to your blog post about your wife becoming Roman Catholic. I am sorry to see the pain this has so obviously caused.

As a cradle Southern Baptist myself who eventually came home to Orthodoxy, I may know a little of what she was going through. Or maybe not. It’s hard to say.

I would simply say, as somebody who started down this trail a long time ago with the vague suspicion that Protestantism was somehow cut off from Church history, that you might benefit from reading Jaroslav Pelikan’s five volumes on Christian doctrine. It might not make you follow your wife across the Tiber (indeed, I think Orthodoxy is the proper choice), but on the other hand it might provide a degree of historical context that I think is often missing in most Baptist environments. And at least make what happened more comprehensible.



Good people, but the totally wrong thing to do. TOTALLY.