The REAL Reason I Review Churches w/ Marco @acrossthepews — KC Pod #24

He sees a demon in Italy. Becomes Catholic. Now Christians call him "closet gay" for reviewing their churches. Marco from @acrossthepews sits down to tell the wildest conversion story we've heard—from growing up on welfare and food parcels, to a haunted Italian apartment that shattered his reality, to becoming the internet's most controversial church reviewer. This isn't your typical testimony. Marco was living his best life as an agnostic philosophy student when God literally knocked him over the head in Florence. Now he visits churches across denominations asking the questions no one else will ask—and Christians are BIG mad about it. IN THIS EPISODE:  ✅ The terrifying demon encounter in a 600-year-old Italian apartment that changed everything  ✅ Why his girlfriend destroyed him in theological debates (and he became Catholic because of it)  ✅ Growing up in a broken home on Centrelink and church food parcels  ✅ The REAL reason he reviews churches (hint: "the atheists are watching")  ✅ What happened inside the Mormon temple in Brisbane  ✅ Why Christians call him "demonic" and "closet gay" in the comments ✅ The one thing that made him cry talking about Mary  ✅ What Catholics can learn from Protestants (and vice versa)  ✅ Why he thinks there's a massive shift coming around communion/Eucharist  ✅ His mantra: "The atheists are watching" - and why it guides everything he does KEY QUOTES: "Every time I make a video, I just have this one little sentence that runs through my mind: the atheists are watching." "This woman, her whole essence was darker than the room itself. I could see her outline. It was just like blacker than pitch black." "If you can't handle a question, especially if it's innocent, that says a lot more about you than it says about whoever is asking the question." "I pursued God and I ended up here [Catholic]. I wasn't seeking tradition. I genuinely just loved God and kept pursuing Him." "When you understand the gravity of what Jesus did on the cross and how that would have felt for His own mother Mary... it breaks you apart completely."  ABOUT MARCO: Marco Boon is the creator behind @acrossthepews, where he visits churches across denominations to understand how different Christians worship—and asks the questions that make everyone uncomfortable. From Presbyterian to Pentecostal, Anglican to Mormon temples, Marco's mission is simple: help Christians understand each other better, and show atheists that Christianity is worth investigating. CONNECT WITH MARCO: Instagram/TikTok: @acrossthepews CONNECT WITH KINGDOM CREATIVES: Instagram: @kngdmcrvs Website: www.kingdomcreatives.com.au SUBSCRIBE if you want more honest conversations about faith, culture, and the tension of Christian unity. We're done with surface-level church talk. 💬 Drop a comment: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, or somewhere in between—what's ONE thing your tradition does really well? #catholic #protestant #churchreview #testimony #conversion #demon #italy #mormon #eucharist #acrossthepews #christianunity #kingdomcreatives #faith "The atheists are watching." - Marco's reminder to all of us that how we love one another matters. Unity doesn't mean agreement, but it does mean showing the world that we actually follow Jesus. If this conversation challenged you, hit LIKE and SHARE. Let's show Christians and non-Christians alike that we can have hard conversations with grace.