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James

I was a porn addict, a drug addict, a pack-a-day smoker putting down a 12-pack a day, a failed husband, and a man who had built his whole life around getting people to accept him. I called myself an atheist but I was really just drowning in rejection.

Kim

I was a spiritual seeker from Manchester — open-minded, into psychedelics, shamanic healing, and plant medicine. I didn't want religion, I just wanted God. I thought ayahuasca was the answer to my depression and the healing the world needed.

Brian

I thought Christianity was the dumbest thing ever — a crutch for people who needed to lie to themselves. I was selling drugs, dabbling in the occult, trying to open my third eye to fight the demons that had followed me since infancy. I was a psychonaut who thought he was smarter than religion.

EJ

I was a very dysfunctional young man getting involved in a lot of fights, violent activities, just doing whatever I wanted. I had no father, no future, no plan. I was cold as a stone, always angry, living from one marijuana high to the other, putting off my suicide every other day.

David

I was from the streets — never knew my dad, physically abused, selling drugs since 12, in and out of jail, addicted to meth, a habitual felon facing 25 to life. I believed in a higher power but not Jesus, and I thought everything I survived was because of me.

Christine

I was a foster care kid who aged out of the system with a felony, no education, and a deep belief that I was a mistake. I fled my marriage, practiced Buddhism, and sought worth in all the wrong places. I was angry, broken, and terrified — and I didn't believe God existed.

Craig

I was a mean atheist who made fun of Christians. As early as age nine I didn't believe in life after death or God. I thought everything could be explained through evolution and natural causes. I wanted to be an astrophysicist or paleontologist and thought Christianity was incompatible with science.

Jesse

I was a very miserable, angry person. My whole life was a trauma drama. I was into the New Age for 15 years, tried everything — Sufism, Buddhism, feminism, all of it — and none of it led me to truth or life. I had so much abuse, anger, hatred, and condemnation inside me.

Laurinda

I went through a lot of childhood trauma and in that I deemed myself as being a bad person. I stayed away from church because I just assumed God only likes good people — I'm not a good person, so God wants nothing to do with me.

Amaya

I was a new age influencer, belly dancer, and feminine embodiment coach — half naked, smoking weed every day for seven years, having sex outside marriage, following false Gnostic christs, and going around pretending I wasn't lost or broken when it was a complete fabrication.

Rosaria

I was a tenured lesbian professor, a gay rights activist, a leader in the LGBTQ movement, fervent for Freud, Marx, Hegel, and Darwin. I believed my lesbian life was a cleaner, more moral way to live and that I had found my real self.

Dan

I was a secular Israeli Jew studying math at university. I believed in God — unlike my atheist parents — but Jesus was a foreign god, something Gentiles believed in, connected in my mind to the persecution of Jewish people.