In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Let me start off by saying that I love my family, all of them, and not one person more than the others. However, I really love my mom. In recent times, as she grows deeper in her faith and I in mine, we have had so much to talk about. It seems that, whenever I go home from college, the conversation quickly turns into some sort of exam on everything I have been learning through my Religious Studies classes. Well, not so much an exam as a test on the practical application of what I may have learned. I really like these conversations with her, because she brings a whole new side to my studies. By “a whole new side,” I mean the side of lived-out faith