The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: Expanded Edition
By:Rosaria Champagne Butterfield,
ISBN:9781884527388 | 154 pages | Paperback | Crown and Covenant | 2012
Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very
good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for
which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they
provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a
difference in the world. There, her partner rehabilitated abandoned and abused
dogs. In the community, Rosaria was involved in volunteer work. At the
university, she was a respected advisor of students and her department's
curriculum. And then, in her late 30s, Rosaria encountered something that
turned her world upside down-the idea that Christianity, a religion that she
had regarded as problematic and sometimes downright damaging, might be right
about who God was, an idea that flew in the face of the people and causes that
she most loved. What follows is a story of what she describes as a "train
wreck" at the hand of the supernatural. These are her secret thoughts
about those events, written as only a reflective English professor could.