Douthat's mother had intense spiritual experiences in charismatic healing services within mainline Protestantism, but the denomination lacked institutional continuity with that experience, leading the family to seek Catholicism.
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“my mother had these intense experiences in a context of like charismatic healing services. Uh and then we wanted a church to go to, right? And it was hard to find...starting in mainline Protestantism a church where it seemed like the thing that she had encountered was also there in some way”
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