"Unbelief is not an intellectual problem resulting from a lack of evidence...it is a spiritual problem resulting from a lack of willingness to surrender to Him who is the Truth."---Nelson Purdue

• How I Met Jesus:  If you are curious as to why I am so convinced that Christ is the only way, feel free to read my testimony.

• How My Wife Met Jesus:  My wife met Jesus almost at the same time as I did.

• Why We Are Catholic, Part 1 & Part 2: My wife and I gave our testimony regarding our conversion from Evangelical Protestantism to Catholicism at Catholic Evangelization Outreach (CEO) in Rochester, MN, on October 4, 2019.  These are two links to the videos of the talk.

• Article in the Winonan, Fall 2021:  In the Fall of 2021, the Winonan (WSU's student newspaper) reported on an interview with me.  Unfortunately, it does not speak well of them that they took several of my comments out of context, obscuring and even changing their meaning.  The most egregious perhaps was that the reporter asked me whether I think, "Winona State is a safe space for Christians," to which I replied, "No, and I don't want it to be!  Safe spaces tend to foster psychologically and emotionally fragile individuals..."  In the article, she printed that I do not believe in safe spaces, in the context of the LGBTQ+ communities reaction to my syllabus.  Knowing this is a common tactic of activist journalism, I insisted on a written interview, and you may read the complete and unedited version of the comments I provided to reporter Sophia Sailer of the Winonan on October 14, 2021, so that you may judge for yourself how well her article represents my position.
  

• Rights of Christians in the Workplace:  In institutions of "higher education," originally founded by Christian groups, the hostility to Christianity and to religion in general has become so widespread that many people unthinkingly believe it is their right to personally censor any point of view in academia that they deem to be "too religious."  Indeed, many people believe that academia should be a freedom-from-religion zone.  In an environment of people who claim to be "diverse" and "tolerant," such a bigoted attitude is blatantly hypocritical and very anti-intellectual.  I have experienced this at WSU, mostly from the LGBTQ+ community, quite frankly, but from others as well.  This open letter was penned in 2001, when the first bout of discrimination reached a climax, but the principles articulated in it stand as well today.  If you have experienced such attitudes and would like a short lesson on the First Amendment Rights of religious people in the United States, you will find this link interesting.