It is the story of the author’s conversion. She recounts many personal details that make the narrative both highly engaging and of considerable literary value. With mastery and good humor, she describes every step of her great adventure, since she was born and raised in a militant atheism in which she acquired all the negative prejudices toward religion in general and Christianity in particular. She explains all the difficulties she encounters along the way and how she overcomes them. This book is a good introduction to the Catholic Church and a helpful complement to formal catechesis. Its reading can also be of great benefit to Catholics, non-Catholics, and non-Christians.
The book concludes with the story of her first confession and the joy and emotion of oral confession and of God’s forgiveness. The Internet plays a very important role in her conversion. When she begins her search for God, she starts a blog where she shares her doubts and asks for advice. The Catechism of the Catholic Church serves as a constant reference for her. From the beginning, she finds great help in Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis and in the works of Saint Augustine. She takes every step toward the Church together with her agnostic husband, with whom she has three children during the course of their conversion. One of the best-treated topics is contraception.
Jennifer Fulwiler is an American writer, comedian, and radio host known for her conversion from atheism to Catholicism. She grew up in a deeply atheistic family and, from childhood, was convinced that religion was incompatible with reason and science; in fact, she once said that at school she used to move Bibles from the library shelves to the “fiction” section. She began an intellectual search that intensified after the birth of her first child, an experience that led her to question atheistic materialism. Together with her husband Joe, she was received into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil in 2007. She is the mother of six children.