Crime sped up 'Joan of Arcadia' creator's move to join church

Published: 2005-03-17

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Some people who consider joining the Catholic Church move at the pace that best suits them. For Barbara Hall, creator and executive producer of "Joan of Arcadia," however, it was crime that helped speed up the process. "I had this life-threatening experience. I was a victim of a violent crime," Hall told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where she was wrapping up the last episode of the second season of "Joan of Arcadia." Raised a Methodist, "I was 'nothing' for a long time. I was an intellectual in college," Hall recalled, "And then when I came to California, I started researching all kinds of metaphysical stuff, and all the world religions." Before the crime incident, which she did not elaborate on, Hall said she was already considering Catholicism, but the crime "accelerated my search. I found a church nearby and I went to a Mass, and that did it for me."

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