Tongues of Fire: My Time at a Charismatic Church

Originally published at https://www.splicetoday.com under the title “Free From Demons.”

My high school girlfriend Darlene led me to Christ at age 17. It happened after three months of seeking refuge in Wicca, only to find it exacerbated my clinical depression. One night in October, a few weeks after we started dating, she called me after her church’s Wednesday night Bible study. I…