Hello and welcome to the Ask Antirite Anything podcast, the program where we try to answer your questions about Jesus, the Bible, and the life of faith.

I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College, and I'm joined by Antwright, Tom Wright, from Oxford in England.

And Tom, how would you be this fine day?

Well, it could be worse, could be better.

It's been quite a tough week the last week.

Wonderful time I was in a conference in Switzerland, but also quite hard work and very, very hot.

And they don't have air conditioning there because they don't have heat that often.

So I'm just gradually recovering, even though now England is quite hot at the moment.

That'll tell any listener whenever this goes out exactly when this is happening.

Well, Melbourne is cold, wet and miserable.

It's like a little bit of Scotland has landed upon us.

A little bit of winter's got.

I need to brighten my day by hearing some good questions from our listeners and posting them to you, Tom. And we do have a question from a listener

in Beverly USA. And this is a question, I think it's a good one, about choosing a good church.

And this is what our listener asks. I was raised to Roman Catholic in the late 60s and 70s,

but I received almost no education from the church

about the church or about Christianity during those years. Everything I learned, I learned largely

through my own efforts, some college studies, then the positive influence of one of my siblings.

I always enjoyed going to church and felt a strong yearning as a young person to be a

follower of Jesus. My faith was very strong when I was younger, but I struggled at times with it

during my adult life. I briefly studied theology and religion in college as an adult student,

but I never finished my studies. I do not at this time regularly attend any church.

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