As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving.

Frederica MathewesGreen
As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I...
As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I...
As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I...
As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I...
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In this quote, the author is saying that he is not as responsible as he originally thought for his conversion to Orthodoxy. In fact, the person who influenced him to become Orthodox was someone else. The author is saying that he would have been a Christian had it not been for his wife. He went from being a skeptic into a believer because of his wife.

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