This is a really good article. I started reading it the other day. At first I thought, I can't believe CT would publish an article entitled "How the Pope Turned Me into an Evangelical." Just read the whole thing...
How the Pope Turned Me into an Evangelical
A Christianity Today associate editor recalls growing up Catholic in John Paul II's Poland.
Rosy-cheeked and slender, still in good shape in his mountain-hiking years, Karol Wojtyla reassured me with his smile everywhere I looked.
After looking at this picture a couple of times I wonder if John Paul II was doing his famous Robin Williams imitation again?
Posted by: Mike | April 10, 2005 at 11:29 AM
Funny story for you -- After seeing the picture of the pope when they were carrying him around after he died, a 3-year-old boy looks up at one of his dad's coworkers and said "He's sleeping, isn't he?" She didn't say much. The boy's father heard him and told him that he was dead. The little boy looked up at his dad and said "Santa Clause is dead?!?"
Posted by: Lindsay | April 16, 2005 at 04:29 PM