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.)