Why Are Evangelicals Converting to Roman Catholicism?
By Michael J. Vlach On weekends I occasionally channel surf and end up on EWTN, a network devoted to promoting Roman Catholicism. One show that often catches my attention is The Journey Home. Hosted by former Presbyterian pastor turned Catholic, Marcus Grodi, this program features the testimonies of people, mostly Evangelicals, who have converted to Catholicism. My curiosity was stimulated even further when I received the September 2002 edition of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. In it was an insightful article by Scot McKnight called, “From Wheaton to Rome: Why Evangelicals Become Roman Catholic.” This article was the result of McKnight’s research in which he surveyed the accounts of thirty Evangelicals who had converted to Roman Catholicism (McKnight calls these converts ERC’s—Evangelicals who converted to Roman Catholicism). McKnight’s purpose is mostly that of observation, not critique. Thus, he is not evaluating the validity of the ERC conversions. Instead, he i
