Guest Speaker: Julia Duin
Julia is a writer for the Washington Post Sunday magazine, the Economist, and others. Baptized Episcopal, Julia met a group of evangelical Christians and committed her life to Christ at 16, later joined the charismatic movement and lived 2 years in a charismatic covenant community, and later pursued a master's degree in religion. She landed several writing jobs, including Christianity Today, a newspaper job in Florida, Houston Chronicle (religion reporter), New Mexico newspaper (city editor), and Washington Times (religion editor). She published several books, including "Quitting Church: Why the Faithful are Leaving and What to Do About It" about disenchanted baby boomers who are leaving church, and "Days of Fire and Glory: The Rise and Fall of a Christian Community." At the age of 50, she adopted a 2-year-old girl from Kazakhstan, one of her life's better decisions. You don’t want to miss this speaker!