Baptists Quote by Avery Johnson

For us, church was kind of the way that we found our first entry into community in Arkansas. My parents would drop us off…

— Lee Isaac Chung

For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT classes when…

— Jamila Woods

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew…

— Moby

I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so…

— Win Butler

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but…

— Barack Obama

I went to church a little bit when I was growing up with my dad, mom and aunt. We didn't go every Sunday. I…

— RaMell Ross

Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with…

— James Nesbitt

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I…

— Cory Booker

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

— Park Chan-wook

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

— Conor Oberst

I grew up in a church. My mom is a minister so she would make us go to every possible church she could muster.

— Saint Jhn

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

— Debby Boone