Separated At Birth?

A reader writes:

Hi Jimmy,

Any possibility that you and Deacon Andrey Kurayev were separated at birth?

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YOU DECIDE!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

15 thoughts on “Separated At Birth?”

  1. Wow, frightening! He’s like your Orthodox evil twin, with scruffier grooming and less cool eyeglasses.
    I like his comments on The Da Vinci Code, though. 🙂

  2. Or is that Jimmy in disguise on one of his secret missions that Ed Peters talks about?

  7. Speaking of the Duh Vinci Code… but in an aural sense…
    this is a little off the topic, but a protestant friend of mine was watching the DVD movie of “JP2: WITNESS TO HOPE” last evening and she kept saying… wow… this George Weigel sounds exactly like… Tom Hanks!
    I closed my eyes… and bingo… what an uncanny resemblence.

  11. Let it grow Jimmy. Let it grow!
    Actually, at the moment my beard is longer than it is in the picture.
    I also don’t have my cheeks shaved, and my moustache is long enough that I can wear it in handlebar fashion if I wish.
    But the Orthodox deacon does look remarkably like I do in the picture.

  14. Time for a new pic, Jimmy.
    Be sure to handlebar it for the photo, and don’t forget your six shooters!

  15. You know now that I think of it Jimmy looks like a young Fr. Grotechel as well(before Fr. Grotchel went gray).

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