Celebrated author, poet and environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth shares about his reluctant, yet shocking conversion from atheism to Buddhism and Wicca, and finally finding Christ in Orthodox Christianity. Paul further shares on his experience of being the Most Reluctant Convert, or the Prodigal son. An experience mirrored by C.S. Lewis. One of many powerful testimonies of Jesus Christ at work!

[The Full interview with Seen and Unseen with Justin Brierley can be found here:

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The original one hour interview with Belle and Justin can be found in the description! His reference to CS Lewis makes his conversion story worth reflecting on :
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms. The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words “compelle intrare,” compel them to come in, have been so abused be wicked men that we shudder at them; but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”

In illustrating God’s love for us when we finally , however reluctantly, come back to him from Luke 15 :

“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.
I pray that you come to the father through the son, if you’ve not done so already
Christ is King & Every Knee will bow, absolutely


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