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Born and raised in Turkey, my first encounter with God was through the lenses of Islam. A messy divorce and a crisis of faith later, I was an atheist teenager who knew everything.

Then the wandering began, until I finally found truth in Christianity and my home in the Catholic Church.

In the mean time I received degrees in international relations and history. Now, with a PhD in political science, I live in a small town in the American Northeast with my husband and four children, reading, writing, enjoying coffee and kissing booboos.

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Spiritual Direction

I've just started receiving spiritual direction and it has been wonderful. Often, others can see our inner lives clearer than we can.

I've also started reading Spiritual Direction by two Benedictines.

I'll let you know how I like it in the end, but so far it's full of wisdom we can use in our spiritual lives as well as helping others come closer to the Lord.

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“The youth did not gather in a cozy pub for a pint of ale in order to talk about big ideas, as C. S. Lewis and his literary friends did at Oxford. No, they spent hours in bars, losing count of how many drinks they were consuming and hooking up with total strangers for sex.”
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“As Saint Thomas Aquinas said, one should not try to defend the Christian faith with arguments that are so patently opposed to reason that the faith is made to look ridiculous and deserving of scorn.”
Derya Little, From Islam to Christ: One Woman's Path Through the Riddles of God

“Science and religion, though complementary, explore different spheres: Science can observe and measure only physical causes; religion concerns itself with the spiritual realm. Science can tell us what things are made of and how things work, but not the why. It can tell us that man is made of this and that, and that muscles work this way and not that way, but it cannot tell us why we exist in the first place, what our lives are for. Therefore, science cannot give us the principles we need to guide our actions. We must look elsewhere for those.”
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