Valerie Stivers built her career in cultural journalism, beginning as an intern at a major fashion magazine and later working as a sex columnist for the Moscow based alternative paper The Exile, editing Time Out New York, and writing as a freelance journalist for numerous publications. Raised in an atheist family, she did not arrive at faith through argument or study. Instead, a personal experience led her directly and without hesitation into the Catholic Church. In this episode, Valerie reflects on that moment, her life as a writer, and what it meant to follow something she did not expect.