Mary jo sharp biography
Mary Jo Sharp is the..
Mary Jo Sharp grew up in a secular home.
A former atheist who came to faith, Mary Jo has experienced two worlds of American culture: the post-Christian culture of the Pacific Northwest and the evangelical culture of the Bible Belt.Her parents didn’t go to church. Her community in Portland, Oregon was post-Christian, and she didn’t even know people who claimed to be Christian.
She was aware of Christianity in culture, but she didn’t have any firsthand contact with Christian culture.
Her parents weren’t’ religious, and they didn’t go to church.
Her father was a “huge Carl Sagan fan”, and she was influenced by his love for science, outer space and nature.
Mary Jo Sharp is an apologist, author, and the founder of Confident Christianity, an educationally focused ministry.
She was influenced almost exclusively by a materialist worldview from a young age – the view that reality consists only of what we can see, hear, feel, touch, and taste in the material realm. (There is no other “realm”.)
Materialism was the theme that ran through the TV shows on science and nature that her father would watch.
“This was the background that formed my view of reality,” says Sharp, “I really didn’t have a view of God