Browse Testimonies

Remy

I was a Nigerian Muslim girl who never heard 'I love you' at home, felt rejected by my father and by men, tried to fill the hole with weed, alcohol, parties, and even a relationship with a woman — and still woke up crying, not knowing why.

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.

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.

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.

Monique

I was a black Christian who saw the world through a pro-black lens, believed all white people were racist, and had been taught that systems of whiteness were the root of oppression. Race was the most important thing about me.

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.

Stuart

I was a Jewish guy from the Bronx — a rebel, a heavy drinker, a drug dealer. I believed Jesus was not for the Jewish people. End of discussion. I wanted to connect with God but found only hypocrisy in the synagogue.

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.

George

I was a scared little boy growing up in a tough neighborhood — running with a crew, carrying a gun, doing petty crime, smoking and drinking, searching desperately for a path that wouldn't end in death. I had no father, no one home, and no idea who I was.

Daniel

I was a radical Muslim, a famous religious boy from childhood, a revolutionary who helped bring Khomeini to power. I believed Islam was the perfect religion and that Christians were unclean people polluting the world. I was on death row before I escaped Iran.

Talia

I was a dysfellowshipped Jehovah's Witness working bar jobs, dabbling in New Age spirituality, completely alone, and desperately trying to figure out what was true — still half-believing the organization I'd been raised in, but unable to live up to it.

Beniel

I was a world champion jiu-jitsu fighter who idolized winning above everything — I pushed away family, friends, and any thought of God because winning was my god. I had no desire for a wife, kids, or Christ.