UNITED STATES
Sarah O’Leary

“Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? — New American Standard Bible, ©1995

Growing up in born-again bastion of Wheaton, Illinois, my childhood friends celebrated every type of Christianity. Among the largely Catholic population there were Covenants, Evangelical Frees, Methodists, Lutherans and non-denominational religionists who attended a variety of Christian churches. I found it most extraordinary that many of them actually read the Bible! What kind of craziness is that? Catholics I knew didn’t read the Bible. The priest and selected laymen read parts of it on Sunday for us. Other important stuff was picked out and fed to us by nuns in Sunday school. But actually read it on our own? No way. I’ve never been in a Catholic Church that even had Bibles in the…