Dying to Live

From Agnostic to Baptist to Catholic

By: Ian Murphy

Narrated by: Ian Murphy

When high school valedictorian Ian Murphy was writing his graduation address, a teacher told him that he could not mention Jesus in his speech. She even threatened to pull the plug on the microphone if he tried to do so. Murphy’s defiance, in the name of his constitutional rights, made national news, and his zeal to spread the Gospel, no matter the cost, became the defining passion of his life.

Murphy's public battle for his freedom of speech is where this conversion story begins, but then it retraces the other important experiences of his youth. He describes his free-spirited Christian parents, his early doubts, the influence of faith-filled relatives and friends, and the spiritual encounter that made him a believer.

At a young age, Murphy went from strength to strength as he sought after truth, grew in prayer, and shared his faith with others. But his doubts resurfaced when his friend and mentor, the leader of a Protestant college group, was murdered. After his trust in God was restored, Murphy became a Baptist minister in the Bible Belt, and from there his spiritual journey led him into the Catholic Church.

The unexpected twists and turns in Murphy's extraordinary story show that when a man gives his life to Christ, the Lord never lets him go.

©2020 Ignatius Press (P)2022 Ignatius Press

I’m not the only one!!!

I was raised very strict Southern Baptist and have recently joined RCIA…this book REALLY touched me and addressed a lot of the questions I currently have, and didn’t realize I had, about Catholicism. I’m bummed he didn’t hit much on the Sacrament of Confession.