“My family saw God and my nanny saw Allah, but they were both worshiping Jesus.”Through reading scripture in Mr. Onuoha’s nondenominational group, she said, “I surrendered my life to Him. I got so repentful looking at my past life.”She stopped wearing crop tops and cursing and broke her collection of rap CDs. For a while, she slept with a Bible, like she would a teddy bear. If Mr. Onuoha was her guide to a fuller sense of God, though, he wasn’t hers exclusively. A late 2014 outing to a McDonald’s restaurant near campus would help him understand the intensity of their connection.

Source: New York Times April 02, 2021 12:56 UTC