Sceptics who changed their minds
Rosaria Butterfield: a professor's unlikely conversion
A tenured professor of English and women's studies at Syracuse University who was befriended by a pastor and his wife, read the Bible to critique it, and became a Christian in 1999. She describes it in The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (2012).
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Her account
Butterfield writes that a pastor answered her critical newspaper article with a kind letter and an invitation to dinner. Over two years of friendship and reading the Bible, she came to faith in Christ.
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12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12 (WEB) · context
Sources
- Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Crown & Covenant, 2012)
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