136. Maria Benes’s Life, and How a Threatening Trip to the Andes in Peru Convinced Her There Is a God

May 2, 2023

Dr. Maria Benes currently serves as co-director of the Before Gethsemane Initiative (BGI), a Catholic nonprofit for racial reconciliation. She also is a project lead for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage for Modern Catholic Pilgrim. 

We discuss Maria's childhood, teen years, college–and the scary trip in the Peruvian Andes that made Maria, who was considering agnosticism, confirm her faith in God.

(This episode was recorded March 14, 2023.) 

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