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Development and Communications Assistanthoganherritagebaylorcatholic.orgI was born and raised in Dallas, Texas in a church-going Baptist family that taught me to love the Lord. After spending close to a decade within the Anglican tradition as a member of The Episcopal Church, my wife, Madeleine, and I were received into full communion with the Catholic Church on the first Sunday of Advent, 2018 at St. Mary’s Parish in New Haven, Connecticut. My wife Madeleine works at one of the Baylor libraries and for the University Scholar program at Baylor. At St. Peter’s, I facilitate communications and help out John with development work.
I’m a Baylor Bear and largely credit my professors there for forming me into the Christian I am today. They taught me to think and pray with the Church, love the Saints, and introduced me to the richness of a cruciform ecumenism. To quote our Pope emeritus: “Certainly, division is harmful, especially when it leads to enmity and an impoverishment of Christian witness. But if the poison of hostility is slowly removed from the division, and if, through mutual acceptance, diversity leads no longer to mere impoverishment but rather to a new wealth of listening and understanding, then during the transition to unity division can become a felix culpa, a happy fault, even before it is completely healed.”