Elaine Pagels:

And, also, it was very challenging. So I found it like a breakthrough. I sort of plunged at that point, at the age of 14, going on 15, into an evangelical group briefly because it was powerful experience, and then I left it after a year, and just thought, well, I am done with that.

And years later, maybe four or five years, I felt, wait a minute, what was it about that that was so powerful? So I went back and I wanted to find out how the Christian movement started and who was Jesus.

And then, of course, the story gets much more complicated and interesting, because all of these secret gospels we never knew about emerged.