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By Martin Barillas, National Catholic Register, August 20, 2025
Martin Barillas is a writer and translator, having once served as a U.S. diplomat in Europe and South America. A lifelong Catholic, he resides in Michigan with his wife Alice and their four children and grandchild. He has written on a variety of topics, including human rights, politics and religion. He is also a novelist.
A family of five in Michigan took a winding journey through various church communities, questioning their faith — until finding unity and a haven in the Catholic Church.
An interview with the Bingham family of Ann Arbor revealed individual and joint paths of inquiry as they navigated faith communities. Dan and Hannah led their children to fully participate in these faith communities, especially in music ministry, but also in Bible study and group sessions. They also led them to the Church.
Dan is a psychologist, overseeing more than a dozen therapists. He has taught psychotherapy and spiritual discernment to professionals and religious communities and is trained to integrate Christian spirituality and psychotherapy. He had long adhered to a broadly fundamentalist faith, which he professed when he met Hannah while they sang in a Baptist choir in Kentucky. Hannah has led choirs and music ministry, having trained in the field at Ohio’s evangelical Cedarville University. …
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