Randal Schmidt

R.W. Schmidt is a 26 year old high school English teacher in Texas, and the author of the Christian fantasy novel, The Lands Beyond the Moon (Available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other major book sellers).


He and his wife, Brett, are Catholic converts from Protestantism. They recently welcomed their first child, James, in November 2014. You find out more about Schmidt and receive news about upcoming books at his website: www.randalwilliamschmidt.com

Latest Articles By Randal Schmidt
Fight or Die: What it means to be a Catholic Man
Fight or Die: What it means to be a Catholic Man
Recently I was asked to sit on a panel for a new class of catechumens beginning RCIA in my local parish. The panel was discussing the question, “What does it mean to be a Catholic?” I had previously been on this same panel a year before, and at that time, I had answered this question in terms of my then-recent conversion.
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The Light of the Trinity
The Light of the Trinity
Many people who criticize Christianity say that Christians worship more than one god. After all, how can Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit be gods at the same time? You worship 3 gods? So Christians are polytheists, right? Wrong.
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The Lonely Soul: The Ultimate End of Individualism
The Lonely Soul: The Ultimate End of Individualism
Growing up in a conservative part of the United States, I was bred on the ideals of independence and individualism, self-reliance and autonomy. These are the ideals that built the country. These are what make a man. Hard work and a firm reliance on you and you alone is the best state for a man to be in.
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The Reluctant Roman: or Why I Converted to the Catholic Church, Part III: The Body and the Blood of Christ
The Reluctant Roman: or Why I Converted to the Catholic Church, Part III: The Body and the Blood of Christ
I plan to outline three major ideas that finally convinced me to convert to Catholicism. None of these was the single deciding factor in my conversion, and these three reasons are by no means the only things that influenced me in my decision. But these big three insights that God led me to changed the way I viewed Christianity and by extension, Catholicism.
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The Reluctant Roman: or Why I Converted to the Catholic Church, Part II: Worship and the Physical Man
The Reluctant Roman: or Why I Converted to the Catholic Church, Part II: Worship and the Physical Man
As I have previously mentioned in the first part, I plan to outline three major ideas that finally convinced me to convert to Catholicism. None of these was the single deciding factor in my conversion, and these three reasons are by no means the only things that influenced me in my decision. But these big three insights that God led me to changed the way I viewed Christianity and by extension,
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The Reluctant Roman: or Why I Converted to the Catholic Church, Part I: History and Authority
The Reluctant Roman: or Why I Converted to the Catholic Church, Part I: History and Authority
Let me make this clear up front: I never wanted to be a Catholic. To begin with, I did not even see that as a serious possibility at first. As a Protestant, during my college years I had become terribly dissatisfied with the various churches that I had attended. Many were too liberal, some were biblically unsound, some were too loud, too rowdy, too this, too that and so on.
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