What You'll Want to Know about GOP VP Pick, "Born-Again" Mike Pence

"I simply made a personal decision for Christ."

[ http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/65375/20160717/mike-pen ce-born-again-evangelical-catholic-comes-from-democrat-to-re publican.htm - Gospel Herald] Republican vice presidential running mate of Donald Trump, Mike Pence, has had a "strange" religious conversion narrative, according to Indiana-based author Craig Fehrman, who is working on a book about presidents for Simon & Schuster. While Pence grew up in a big Irish Catholic family of Democrats in central Indiana, serving as an altar boy, attending parochial schools and idolizing John F. Kennedy, he converted to evangelical Christianity through the influence of a nondenominational fellowship group in 1978, while a freshman at Indiana's Hanover College. (Photo: Reuters/via Gospel Herald)

"I simply made a personal decision for Christ," Fehrman said Pence told him in 2012, when he was working on a profile of him after he'd won the gubernatorial race.
 
One of Pence's many former slogans is that he's "a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order"-and "there's no doubt that he loves his family, his state, and his God," Fehrman wrote about Pence in a 2013 piece.
 
Fehrman said Pence after college kept attending Mass and worked as a youth minister at a Catholic church. Pence reportedly even...
 
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