I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy. It was borrowed from my archaeologist father, who was so brilliant he taught himself to speak and read Russian. When I encountered doubt, I would fall back on the fact that he believed.
Leaning on my father’s faith got me through high school. But by college it wasn’t enough, especially because as I grew older he began to confide in me his own doubts. What little faith I had couldn’t withstand this revelation. From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real.
After college I worked as an appointee in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1998. The White House surrounded me with intellectual people who, if they had any deep faith in God, never expressed it. Later, when I moved to New York, where I worked in Democratic politics, my world became aggressively secular. Everyone I knew was politically left-leaning, and my group of friends was overwhelmingly atheist.
She is my favorite liberal and now I know why.
What a wonderful testimony. Thanks, Kendall. And congratulations to Pastor Tim Keller, master apologist, and Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA). But most of all, thanks be to God, who continues to seek and to save the lost.
David Handy+
Pb–That’s a very interesing comment, because Ms. Powers is slowly getting more conservative. My wife and I grew up in the 60’s as pretty liberal Democrats. We both started changing as we studied the Bible more closley in the 1990s. My wife often tells people that as her theology changed, her politics changed. I think that is a major Truth.