Journey Home
Detalls del Canal
Journey Home
JonMarc Grodi and his guests address the personal obstacles, doctrinal objections, and the irresistible attraction to the Church Jesus founded 2,000 years ago.
Episodis Recents
134 episodis
Deacon Michael and Jean Nixon - Former Hare Krishnas
Deacon Michael Nixon had a deeply troubled home life, and after a few years of homelessness, joined the Hare Krishnas at 13 and started selling drugs...
Dr. Lisa Heerema - Former Christian Reformed Church
Dr. Lisa Heerema came from a Reformed Christian background, and became interested in the Catholic Church through history, liturgy, and the sacraments,...
Fr. Allan Phan - Former Buddhist
Fr. Allan Phan grew up in a family with Buddhist roots, but they sent him to Catholic school in Nebraska, where he began to flourish, and develop spir...
Garrett Hines - Former Evangelical Missionary
Garrett Hines was raised in the non-instrumental Church of Christ, but had a renewed excitement for Evangelization through a nondenominational congreg...
Brenda Caster - Former Seventh-day Adventist
Brenda Caster was raised SDA, and even went to an Adventist boarding school. She rebellled a little in her teens, but ended up staying SDA, and eventu...
Patrick Correa - Former Atheist
Patrick Correa’s mom was Pentecostal, but his dad was an atheist. At age 15, after his brother’s suicide, Patrick decided he was an atheist as well. I...
Steve Sjogren - Former Vineyard Pastor
Steve Sjogren had an encounter with Jesus as a young man that led him to become involved with the pioneers of the Vineyard movement, eventually planti...
Matt Daniels - Former Baptist
Matt Daniels was raised Baptist, and his dad was a football coach, which meant he moved around a lot. When he was in college, his dad had a heart atta...
Shaun and Jessica McAfee - Former Evangelical Protestants
Shaun McAfee, contributor to Catholic Answers and the National Catholic Register, discusses how the experiences he had during his military service and...
Dr. Marcus Peter/Lee Sondeno - Former Pentecostals
Lee Sondeno was a Pentecostal worship leader, and Dr. Marcus Peter was an evangelist and preacher in the Assemblies of God. They share the stories of...
Ken Reiman - Former Atheist
Ken Reiman was raised without any formal religious background, although he was exposed to many traditions, especially Buddhism through spending summer...
Wade and Neena Gaynor - Former Methodists
Both Wade and Neena grew up strongly Christian, and at the same time that they were beginning their life together, Wade got a contract playing minor l...
Roger Maxson - Former Baptist Minister
Roger came from a Fundamentalist Christian background and went on to become a Baptist pastor. When cracks in his "sola Scriptura" foundation began to...
Jeff and Lois Heron - Former Wesleyan Ministers
Jeff and Lois were both raised in Christian households, and Lois’s parents were missionaries. They met at a Wesleyan school, and began ministering tog...
Grant Adams - Former Evangelical Youth Minister
Grant had roots in both Baptist and Assemblies of God congregations, and went on to seminary to prepare for ministry. While there, he was introduced t...
Gary Morgan - Former Cowboy Church Pastor
A committed Christian who followed a call to Baptist ministry, Gary’s life took a dramatic and unexpected turn when he was invited to help develop a n...
Vijaya Bodach - Former Methodist and Agnostic
Vijaya was baptized in a Methodist church and raised Anglican in India, but some painful experiences in her youth led her to mistrust God as Father, a...
Rebecca Cohen Morris - Former Evangelical Protestant
Rebekah had Judaism in her background, but was raised in a fundamentalist form of Pentecostalism that she rebelled against strongly, going deep into a...
Jennifer Wood - Former Lutheran
Jennifer Wood’s desire to serve the Lord led her to pursue formation in a Lutheran seminary. It was in her ongoing research and study that she began t...
Jeff Hutson - Former Pentecostal
Jeff’s family was Episcopalian, but early in his childhood, his mom started taking him to a Pentecostal church, which caused a lot of confusion for hi...
Ken Oliver-Mendez - Former Presbyterian
Ken Oliver-Mendez came from a Presbyterian background, attending both Cedarville College and Covenant College. His experience of faith formation and j...
Chris Kellam - Former Evangelical Protestant
When a friend said he was becoming Catholic, Chris began to explore this foreign Christianity and fell in love with the Church, fully entering with hi...
Gerard Figurelli - Former Baptist Pastor
After 34 years as an Evangelical pastor, Gerard began to dig deeper into issues dividing Protestants and Catholics, realizing it was time to return to...
The Journey Home: Dr. Terry and Renee Wortz - Former Pentecostal Missionaries
Terry and Renee grew up in the Assemblies of God, and avoided some anti-Catholic prejudices because of the Catholics they met in charismatic ecumenica...
Jennifer Bryson - Former Agnostic
Jennifer was raised Christian, but by middle school had decided that religion was a stupid thing for stupid people. As an exchange student in Austria,...
David and Roseanna White - Former Baptists
David and Roseanna White came from a strong Baptist faith, and Roseanna began a successful career writing Christian historical fiction, with David fou...
Eben Emerson
Eben Emerson, a former Church of Christ minister and missionary, was originally on The Journey Home in 2011.
In the decade and a half s...
Susan Sucher - Former Pentecostal
Although raised Methodist, Susan Sucher began attending an Assemblies of God youth group in her teens, which is where her faith really took off. As sh...
Shane Page
Shane Page was raised in a United Methodist family in North Carolina, and went on to become an elder and a pastor in a congregation there, serving 18...
Heidi Hess Saxton - Former Protestant Church Musician
Heidi had a strong faith life, and went to Azusa Pacific hoping to do some kind of ministry. She was leading music at a Baptist church and preparing f...
Michael Garcia - Former United Pentecostal Pastor
Michael Garcia was baptized Catholic, but wandered a bit as a young man. When his brother got involved with a Oneness Pentecostal community, Michael w...
Bishop Earl Fernandes -Lifelong Catholic
It has been a longstanding tradition in the Coming Home Network, which is located in the Diocese of Columbus, to invite the sitting bishop to share hi...
Deacon Matt Halbach - Catholic Revert
Deacon Matt Halbach grew up Catholic but wasn’t very well formed. As a young man, he began to struggle with depression and anxiety, and was even think...
Joshua & Teresa Mangels - Former Assemblies of God Ministers
After beginning a personal relationship with Jesus as a teenager, Joshua Mangels felt a call to ministry and eventually became an Assemblies of God pa...
Bishop James Conley - Former Baptist and Presbyterian
Bishop James Conley was raised Presbyterian, and studied Applied Humanities at Kansas University in the 1970’s, falling in love with the Great Books....
Fr. Michael Nixon - Former Hare Krishna
Fr. Michael Nixon was born in Hawaii to parents who were Hare Krishnas. When he was in elementary school, his whole family became Catholic, which was...
Fr. Scott Wooten - Former Episcopal Priest
Fr. Scott Wooten grew up firmly Anglican, but attended Catholic school. As he continued toward ordination as an Episcopal priest, he persisted in the...
Dr. Matthew Wiseman
Dr. Matthew Wiseman was raised with strong Baptist roots, and even as a young child, he was constantly reading and studying the Bible. His family atte...
Rhonda Gruenewald - Former Agnostic
Rhonda Gruenewald fell in love with the Church through her husband, and went on to found Vocation Ministry, which equips diocese to promote and nurtur...
Dr. Michael Root - Former Lutheran
After working on ecumenism initiatives as a Lutheran, Dr. Michael Root’s convictions led him to Catholicism in 2010 where he continues to be an import...