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My Train Wreck Conversion


As a leftist lesbian professor, I despised Christians. Then I somehow became one.

by: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
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This is a testimony that both blessed and stirred me. Surely when God transforms, there's no hint of the past at all.  The apostle Paul definitely knew what he was talking about in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."


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