Interview with Erica Tighe Campbell of Be a Heart Design
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Q: At what point in your life did you begin the journey to really know yourself, step into who you are, and embrace the call that God uniquely gave you? What was the impetus?
A: Though I think I’ll spend my life trying to figure out who I am and what God’s unique call for my life is, some of the defining moments along the way happened in the years following my conversion to the Church.
When I first starting learning about Catholicism as a young, Jesus-loving Evangelical, I found that I had been so wrong about the Church and her teachings. Before I converted, my understanding of the Catholic Church was that it was a legalistic, oppressive, sexist institution that didn’t care whether or not you actually had a relationship with God. That, and they worshipped Mary!
All that said, through things like my conversations with a Dominican priest, studying the writings of St. John Paul, reading a Catholic Bible, and binge-watching the Journey Home Show, I realized that my understanding of the Church’s teachings had been mostly incorrect...
