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5 min readGeorgia Howe, host of Morning Wire and a former emergency room nurse in Los Angeles, describes her conversion to Catholicism as the endpoint of a long intellectual and spiritual journey that began with political disillusionment and ended with a conviction that the Catholic Church is the true church Christ founded. She was received into the Church in March of the year of this recording, after years as a non-denominational Christian. Her path is not a story of emotional crisis but of a careful, stubborn thinker following a trail of arguments and experiences until she had no choice but to submit to an ancient authority.
The Political Awakening That Opened the Door
Howe’s journey started not with theology but with politics. In the summer of 2020, while working as a nurse in Los Angeles, she became alarmed by what she saw: drones hovering over her neighborhood for surveillance, the pressure to post black squares on Instagram, and a pervasive fear that no one would speak out against the draconian COVID restrictions. She recorded a 46-minute video titled I Was Wrong About the Democratic Party, which went viral, garnering millions of views. The backlash was immediate. She faced "staged interventions" from close friends who wanted her to take the video down, and she lost relationships she has not seen since. "When you're fully surrounded by people who have a completely differe
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:20) **Introducing Georgia Howe** - The host welcomes Georgia Howe, Morning Wire co-host, and they briefly discuss her personality type and the surprise of having real-life listeners.
- 2 (06:30) **The "Why I Left the Left" Video** - Georgia recounts making a viral video in September 2020 explaining her political shift from a liberal Democrat to a conservative.
- 3 (14:17) **The Lonely Road to Conservatism** - Georgia describes the isolation of becoming a conservative without a supportive peer group and her intellectual journey away from the mainstream narrative.
- 4 (18:52) **Early Impressions of Christianity** - Georgia shares her childhood view of religion, shaped by a Mormon community in Massachusetts and the later influence of the New Atheist movement.
- 5 (26:27) **The C.S. Lewis Breakthrough** - Georgia identifies a specific C.S. Lewis essay, "Horrid Red Things," as a light-bulb moment that opened her mind to the Bible's deeper truths.
- 6 (32:41) **The Problem of Determinism** - Georgia explains how studying secular philosophy led her to a dead end of determinism, which contradicted her fundamental belief in free will and moral agency.
- 7 (39:14) **Arriving at "Mere Christianity"** - Georgia describes how a Tim Keller lecture at Google and his book *The Reason for God* convinced her of the historical truth of the Resurrection.
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Daily Wire's Georgia Howe shares her conversion story to Catholicism, and how doubts about determinism, evolution, and Scripture ultimately led her home to the Catholic Church.
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