The Sceptical Reporter
Franco Iacomini was a respected journalist in Brazil — based in Curitiba and working for major outlets including Veja magazine, one of the country's largest publications. He was professional, curious, and had no particular interest in religion. Faith was something other people had. He covered stories.
Then the stories started covering him.
"As If God Said: Let Me Show You What I'm Doing"
Over a period of months, Iacomini kept getting assigned to stories that intersected with committed Christians. Not in the way you'd expect — not puff pieces about church events. Real stories about real people, where the thread of faith kept showing up in ways he couldn't edit out.
A community initiative run by believers. A recovery story with faith at its centre. An interview where the subject's honesty was so disarming that Iacomini found himself asking questions he hadn't planned. Each assignment, on its own, was just a story. But taken together, they formed a pattern he couldn't ignore.
"It was as if God said: Let me show you what I'm doing," Iacomini later told Christianity Today. Not a voice from heaven — more like a professional journalist noticing that the same evidence kept appearing across unrelated investigations.
Curitiba, 1996
By 1996, Iacomini had run out of reasons to explain it away. The people he'd interviewed, the communities he'd observed, the consistent evidence of lives genuinely transformed — it all pointed to something real. He gave his life to Christ, not in a dramatic public moment, but with the quiet conviction of a man who'd spent his career evaluating evidence and finally accepted what it showed.
Journalism as Witness
What makes Iacomini's story remarkable is the method. He didn't find faith through emotional music or a compelling speaker. He found it through his professional work — through the disciplined observation that journalism demands. His notebook became, without him planning it, a record of what God was doing across a city.
He continued working as a journalist after his conversion, but with a transformed perspective on what he was actually documenting.
What This Means for You
Franco Iacomini wasn't looking for God. He was looking for stories. But the stories kept showing him the same thing, until the weight of evidence became impossible to explain away. Sometimes God doesn't wait for you to come looking — he shows up in your work, your routine, your regular Tuesday.
Pay attention to the patterns.