I read it. What a nut! From the Church of Christ, to Apocalyptic weirdness, to New Age Mysticism, to the PCA, and then on to Dr. Gene Scott - and all that before he marries a half-Catholic-half-New-Ager-half-Anglican (yes, that's three halves), moves to a PCA church, then leaves it four years later!
He was born in 1965, and attended a Church of Christ congregation until "five or six" (1970-71). Started reading "end times" parts of the Bible at "thirteen or fourteen" (1978-79). Turned to the New Age Movement for "about five years", but broke from them in his "first year of college" (1984). "Some time later" he starts listening to Dr Gene Scott, and "six months later" he joins Scott's church" (let's call it 1986). He was "fascinated...for some time" but decided to "find some other religious affiliation" and settled on the Presybterian Church in America (PCA). He says at this point that his goal is to become "a pastor or...a seminary professor."
Now at some unnamed date he marries his wife in a non-Catholic ceremony, but we are given a date when they later remarry in a Catholic ceremony - 1991. Thus, Akin's conversion happens no later than 1991, at age 26. During those intervening years (198? - 1991), his wife has converted from New Ageism (back) to Catholicism, to Anglicanism, and (back) to Catholicism AGAIN. At least several years prior to 1991, a former attendee of his PCA church sent a Catholic article to the congregation - Akin says he read it, but not how he got it, since the writer left the congregation "some time before I started attending there". He also mentions reading other Catholic materials "a year or two" before he converts to Catholicism himself (i.e. 1989-90). Akin also mentions that he was "having problems" with the fundamental doctrines of sola fide and sola scriptura, roughly four years after he claims to have become a Christian via Dr Scott's telechurch and even less than that as a PCA member.
It bears repeating that, during this very same period, Akin makes his decision to become "a pastor or...a seminary professor" yet he's having trouble with his own beliefs.
"How To Become Catholic" - this would make a perfect cover illustration:
