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.
Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.
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.
But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
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.
I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up.
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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.
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 was raised in church, and we let our kids know who Jesus is.
I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.
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 grew up Catholic, and I am a pretty shy person.
