Ellie Hiller
About the Author
Ellie Hiller is a Catholic convert from Evangelical Christianity, wife, mother, and author of To Whom Shall I Go?: Why I Laid Down My Protest. In her conversion memoir, she explores faith, Truth, and the integration of body and soul.
A former elite CrossFit athlete, she was shaped by years of disciplined training, repetition, and submission to a demanding standard. This experience deeply informed her understanding of formation, obedience, and fidelity.
Catholicism first drew Ellie in through its unapologetic insistence that the body is essential to worship, not incidental to it. If the body truly matters, she came to see, then faith cannot remain abstract or purely interior; it must be lived and practiced sacramentally.
Though her physical life was ordered by clear discipline and direction, her spiritual life lacked an equally concrete path for formation. That imbalance—between a rigorously trained body and a primarily intellectual faith—created a quiet but persistent void, one the Catholic sacramental vision of faith began to fill.
Ellie lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and daughter. When she’s not writing, she works as a registered nurse, CrossFit coach, and nutrition coach, helping others care for their bodies in a way that honors the unity of body and soul.
To Whom Shall I Go?: Why I Laid Down My Protest
A Catholic Conversion Memoir.
Raised in the heart of the Protestant Bible Belt, Ellie Hiller grew up in a faith she believed was unshakable—one that shaped her family, marriage, and entire worldview, and that viewed Catholicism as a distortion of the true Gospel.
Educated within two different Protestant traditions, she gradually became unsettled by their theological contradictions and by unanswered questions that refused to fade. Confident she would find clarity within her Protestant faith, Ellie continued her search for Truth—until her husband announced his desire to become Catholic.
What followed was a season of grief, resistance, and unraveling certainty, during which God quietly began to lead her toward the very Church she once opposed. Her story is one of struggle and surrender, tracing an unexpected path into the arms of the Catholic Church.
PRAISE FOR TO WHOM SHALL I GO?
John Martignoni
Author of Blue Collar Apologetics: How to Explain and Defend Catholic Teaching Using Common Sense, Simple Logic, and the Bible
"I had the privilege of working as an editor on this book. I was engaged in that position by the author because of my knowledge of the Catholic Faith acquired through many years of work and study as a Catholic apologist and evangelist. She was concerned that she not make even the slightest of errors in how the Faith was presented in her book. So, I was sort of a theological editor. However, having done editing work before, I took it upon myself to look not just for anything that might be out of line from the perspective of presenting the Faith accurately, but also for errors of a more benign nature - errors in grammar, spelling, syntax, and so on. And, as you can imagine, reading a book ever so carefully to look for errors in grammar and spelling and punctuation and so on, can sometimes be a bit tedious or even boring. Not so with this book.
Every page of Ellie's story was so captivating that I couldn't wait to get to the next page. So, even though I was reading every page at least twice - to make sure I had found any and all issues, whether theological or grammatical - I was anything but bored. Rather, I was impatient. I was impatient to get to turn that page and find out what happened next!
Great story. Well written. Filled with angst, heartache, and, most of all, love. Love of family and love of God. This is one of the best conversion stories I've ever read. Read it!"
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