Meet Pastor Judy

Judy Martowska has earned the right to be an atheist.

A three-sport athlete in high school, she has been confined to a wheelchair for the better part of this decade, stricken with a rare nerve disease that has paralyzed her from the waist down.

Instead of giving up on the faith that nurtured her in her early years, she's found the challenge has strengthened it. She started college as a student at MIT, intending to become a scientist like her father. She hated it. She switched to a different college and eventually enrolled in theological seminary.

Now, at 44, she's an ordained minister to a congregation in Weymouth, Massachusetts, as its pastor. She's sharing her story here in the hopes that others will be encouraged to share their Moments of Doubt and Faith.