Alan Graham

These are incredulous events.

things to believe.

And so at some point in time, you have to end up in this intellectual space where you're just kind of going, okay, I'm going to believe that my faith is going to drive me there.

So when my wife, prior to 1996, started taking our children back to Mass on Sunday, and I wasn't

Part of that, I began to look at that as the train was leaving the station.

And my father had left us when I was young and divorced my mentally ill mother and left me and my three brothers, you know, almost stuck with a mentally ill, beautiful mom, but struggling mom.

And I began to look at Tricia, who we will celebrate 40 years this year.

Kind of gets me emotional thinking about it.

And as taking our children and leaving the house, the train leaving the station, I'm sitting back fixing to get ready to go into the office to do some work on a Sunday because, you know, we're both kind of serial workaholic types.

And I decided to jump back on that train and begin to really explore my Catholic faith.

And

Through that process, I just got enamored with the church.

And when I talk about the church, I'm talking about the whole thing.

The Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Church, the Protestant Church, the schisms, the heresy, the wars, the reformations.

And I got enamored with maybe one of the greatest novels ever written in mankind.

What a train wreck this whole deal is.

Yet at the center of that deal remains this Jesus of Nazareth.

And so that was very intellectual for me.

And I was buying into it.

My faith was buying into it.