I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.
I grew up with the Bible education, and my values come from there.
To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.
My parents were very spiritual folks. I grew up studying the Bible. My dad's a Christian academy teacher. I grew up with a big spiritual influence. It's a big part of my life.
I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.
My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.
My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open.
I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.
I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.
Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.
But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.
From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
I was raised in church, and we let our kids know who Jesus is.
I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.
In terms of what Hillary Clinton, who's running for president, thinks about Catholics and the value more broadly of having a faith background, I can tell you she views at it as a plus, just as she views her own Methodism as a plus.
I was an altar boy and a choir member.
I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up.
I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.
I came up in gospel.
