Newt Gingrich Religion

Newt Gingrich - Religion

Newt Gingrich's journey through religions has been an odyssey.

The first religion of Newt Gingrich was Lutheranism. His second religion was Southern Baptist. The third and present religion of Newt Gingrich is Roman Catholicism.

Born into a marriage that dissolved within weeks of his conception, Newt Gingrich was raised Lutheran by his mother and stepfather, whose name he bears. But religion does not appear to have played a significant role in Newt Gingrich's early years.

By the time Newt Gingrich reached young adulthood, religion appears to have played no or insignificant role in his life. There is no record of him having attended Lutheran or any other church regularly in his early adulthood.

However, while studying history as a graduate student at Tulane University in New Orleans in the late 1960s, Newt Gingrich became intrigued by the impact religion has had on political theory and visited the nearby St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church to pose some questions to its pastor, who later baptized him.

St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church was then a member of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention, so Newt Gingrich was baptized into a conservative denomination. But St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church itself was liberal. It ordained its first woman pastor in 1980 and left the Southern Baptist convention in 2001.

From the 1970s until the 1990s, Newt Gingrich was officially a member of the New Hope Baptist Church, a megachurch, in south Atlanta, although he spent most of his time in Washington D.C.

On March 29, 2009, no less than four decades after being baptized as a Southern Baptist,

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1. When and how did you become Christian?
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2. How did becoming Christian change you?
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3. How would you describe your relationship with Jesus today?
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4. In the past 12 months, how much time have you spent in prayer with Jesus daily?
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5. In the past 12 months, how much Bible-reading have you averaged daily?
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6. In the past 12 months, what percentage of your income have you returned to God?
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7. In the past 12 months, how many non-Christians have you told why Jesus died?
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8. In the past 12 months, how many church services have you attended?
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9. Which church do you attend most frequently?
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10. Which gift(s) has the Holy Spirit given you and what fruit(s) have they borne?
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