num_pages: 153
description: 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 departments curriculum. And then in her late 30s Rosaria encountered something that turned her world upside downthe 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.Conversion put me in a complicated and comprehensive chaos. I sometimes wonder when I hear other Christians pray for the salvation of the lost if they realize that this comprehensive chaos is the desired end of such prayers. Often people asked me to describe the lessons that I learned from this experience. I cant. It was too traumatic. Sometimes in crisis we dont really learn lessons. Sometimes the result is simpler and more profound: sometimes our character is simply transformed. Rosaria Butterfield
language: English
title: The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
publisher: Crown & Covenant Publications