Christian Autobiography

I was born June 29 2000 to Michael and Shaunette Hurts. My parents. We lived in Virginia at the time. After Virginia my parents were stationed at Kentucky so we went to Kentucky. Lived there for a while in a house till I was 4 years of age. In Kentucky I had my first ever pet. My parents decided to give me a hamster instead of a dog. He was a small brown and white little pet. I was to give him a name so since I was 4 years old I thought dude was an efficient name. So dude was his name. After being in Kentucky for about

I crawled into bed with her one night. Under the blankets and wrapped in her arms, I whispered, “Why did the doctors take your hair away?” To this, my mom softly explained to me the process of chemotherapy. I was four years old at the time, and two years prior to this my mother was diagnosed with Stage 4 Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Having never drank, smoked, or done drugs, her diagnosis came as an incredible shock. She fought it for the next three years of her life, and though I was very little at the time, I have very vivid memories of being with her through this. I remember rubbing her bald head while we watched movies, I remember painting her pictures daily, and most often I remember doing yoga with her on the beach.

At the age of nine that is when my life really begin. My Aunt and Uncle, Dave and Betty Callis adopted me. My wonderful new parents. I lived in Georgia and moved here to Tennessee. When I moved here I lost all connection with my mom and some connections with my sisters.

I was born in Wellington, Kansas. I do not really remember living in Wellington very much but I think I was only a few years old when we moved to Mulvane and then to Winfield. I lived in Winfield for about seven years, moving around to a few different houses after my parents split up and living with my grandparents from time to time. I have four sisters and one brother. There are my two real sisters: Izabel and Sydni. Then my two; step sisters Ryan and Kayla. I also have my baby brother Hunter.

My faith has been very important to me and my family since my birth. I was baptized at Broad Street United Methodist Church by Rev. Mark Ale on January 17, 1993. The reason my faith has played such a vital role for me is mainly due to my Mom’s United Methodist influence. After my Dad began to live on his own he grew distant and stopped going to Church until he married my Mom, and she told him that a condition of being married to her was that they would go to either her Church or his Church every week. When I stated Kindergarten my parents and I were attending Holy Name Roman Catholic Church each week and decided to raise me as a Catholic, so I was brought into the Catholic Church not missing any sacraments due to my valid United Methodist

Christianity is the belief in God, Jesus, his son, and the Holy Spirit. Christians believe that God’s son, Jesus, was born from a virgin, died on a cross for the sins of the world and rose again after three days. They believe that God created everything from the water, to the air and sky, to animals, to humans, absolutely everything. Christians also believe in a place after death that reunites God and all his creation.

While going through your senior year of high school you quickly begin to hate the questions; "What college are you going to?" and "What major are you planning on pursuing?" I got asked these questions countless times over the course of the past year. The first question, "What college are you going to?" was the easiest of them all. The very moment I stepped onto Butler's campus I knew it was the place I was meant to be. And while I thought the second question, "What major are you planning on declaring?" was also a simple question to answer, I soon found my once easy answer of being a pharmacy major was slipping through my fingertips once I moved in and was an official bulldog. Everything I had planned for myself was quickly disappearing into

The summer before I went into the sixth grade my mom took my two sisters Natalie and Liberty, my brother Derek and I to Chicago for a family trip. We drove for a long 8 hours. My mom picked Chicago because that is where she was born and raised. She also wanted us to know where she lived and know about her childhood. When we arrived in Chicago, the first thing we did was go to the neighborhood my mom lived in with her adopted family and where my grandparents lived. My mom cried a little because it had been so long since she had visited her old house. After that we went and checked into our hotel and went to dinner at a steakhouse. Then once we were done eating we went to a car show.

The pain in my ear was unbearable. I started to freak out because I had no idea what had happened. One moment I was running around the trailer and the next I was on the ground with a weird ringing sound in my ear. I was rushed to the emergency room that night. They told me that a bolt had broken off of the tire my dad was fixing and that it had hit me in the ear. They said if it would've been anymore to the right I would have lost my hearing in my right ear. When I was getting stitches they had six doctors holding me down because the medicine they used to numb the pain didn't work. I felt like an animal trapped in a small cage with no room to move. This experience started with a simple calling of my name to help my dad in the garage.

It’s taken 17 long years to realize who I am today, that person would be a loving, caring, compassionate, smart, wild, and of course fun person. I may even have different perspectives on things then others, but that’s what makes me. I also do have to say I wouldn’t be who I was if it wasn’t for my dad, grandmother and of course my love Christian. So now, let me begin to tell you who I really am. I’ve had a dream of becoming a traveling nurse since I was 11 because I grew up around my dad being a nurse, my nana having her own business taking care of old people with mental issues. I have been really interested to learn about the human body and how to cure diseases and what meds to prescribed to someone for their problems. I have already learned some basics of the human body, what muscles are in the body an how

On December 29th, 1999, I was born in New Albany, Mississippi. I have a sister who is two years older than me, and a brother who is three years younger than me. When I was still a baby we moved to Maumelle, Arkansas because my dad got a job at a church there. I loved living there but when I six my siblings and I were told that we were going to move. The church where my dad worked at was closing down because they didn’t have enough money or members to keep it open. We found a new church fairly quickly and have lived here ever since. I was in first grade at the time. I was super excited because I had my own room, I didn’t have to wear uniforms at my new school, and my new house had stairs. For some reason when I was seven I had a major obsession with houses that had stairs. I told my parents that in the new house I wanted stairs and a pool. Sadly I didn’t get the pool and honestly I’m still upset about it.

In order to formulate an appropriate definition and understanding of Christian Spirituality, one must first understand the concept of Spirituality. The term Spirituality is not one that is conventional and unanimously accepted. David B. Perrin, in his book, Studying Christian Spirituality (2007) he describes what “authentic spirituality” is not: the “spiritual life” and “body life” are not detached, and it encompasses all of life’s aspects, for example, the psychological, social and intellectual dimensions, he goes on to say that these dimensions are crucial in understanding spirituality. Perrin also states that some would say that they are “spiritual, but not religious”, therefore it can be said that spirituality is not always associated with

And how compulsory it is to be on time at our various places of worship.

During my time at USD I have taken a few classes pertaining to the Christian community. While they all stressed the importance of Jesus; it never really explained in detail his influence upon the Christian church. I was born and raised in Atlanta, which you know is the bible belt. Growing up in rural Atlanta I attended a Baptist Church at least three times a week. While I learned about God through my personal reading and interpretation, my pastor taught a different explanation. He constructed a God that was feared in both the Old and New Testament beside a Jesus that was loving and caring. Pastors in my community would talk about Gods purposeful mishaps and mistakes while highlighting Jesus’s perfection. Even as an adult you see the Church

Christian Tradition course exposed me to the Christian Tradition based on Biblical and church history. The course taught me the differences and similarities of Christian Tradition from other major world religions. I learned about the significance of God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Trinity based on the teachings of the Bible. The course also briefly covered 2,000 years of church history but with emphasis on the impact of the Council of Nicea, Council of Chalcedon, and John and Charles Wesley on Christianity. The professor emphasized the importance of the reformation that sparked a revolution in the church.