Browse Testimonies

Muhammad

I was the most zealous Muslim in my family — beating myself, cutting my head with a sword, traveling to shrines, serving in the Revolutionary Guard — doing everything to earn God's satisfaction, but feeling further from him the harder I tried.

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.

Tessa

I was a dominatrix and sex worker who felt completely unworthy and unlovable. The adult industry made me feel worthy when nothing else did. I had no ID, no way out, and a suicide plan ready for when my time in the industry ran out.

Carl

I was a model church member — baptized, tithing, teaching Bible classes — but I was doing it all out of duty, to get out of hell and into heaven. I didn't love God, I didn't love my fellow man. I had no real relationship with Christ at all.

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.

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.

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.

Ricky

I was brought up in a Christian family and got saved in 2020, but I was a cessationist — I thought when the Bible was completed, you didn't need the Holy Ghost anymore. I used to say people who spoke in tongues were demonic.

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.