From her days on the hit TV show The Wonder Years, to her work on the Hallmark Channel, to her four-season outing as the voice of Miss Martian in Young Justice, actress Danica McKellar has been a known figure in Hollywood for quite some time.
A few years ago, McKellar was one of the many actresses who jumped ship from The Hallmark Channel to Great American Family after George Zaralidis, the vice president of network programming for the former’s parent company Crown Media Family Networks, made ‘diversity and inclusion’ a top priority for the network and began shifting their programming to please the LGBTQ lobby.
With little reason left to remain in the state of California – arguably the most progressive left wing state in the nation – after leaving Hallmark, McKellar and her family subsequently decided to to pack up and move them all to rural Tennessee.
Recounting her journeys both out of California and into her Christian faith to GAC, McKellar began her story by recalling how, “My husband and I have been wanting more nature for a long time, we were kind of ready to not be in a city anymore.”
Then, after spending some time in her new Tennessee home, the actress says she then began reading the entire Bible – both Old and New testaments – and in doing so found that studying the word of God brought great comfort to her life.
“It just hit me, everything hit me,” said of the moment when she came to truly know the text she was reading. “The Holy Spirit came to me. It was like a wave of love and understanding hit me.”
McKellar then admits that thanks to being in the state of California and working in the entertainment industry, she originally knew very little about Biblical Christianity.
Being in the Hollywood bubble, the only exposure she had to Christianity and Jesus Christ came from a very secular and often anti-Gospel worldview.
“I’d always been so biased against Christianity for various reasons, mostly because of the bad reputation it’s gotten with causing wars, and you think, ‘Oh, Christians are these really judgmental people,’ and all this religious stuff,” she told GAC. “The truth is, Jesus was anti-religion. He was anti-religion, and I didn’t even realize that.”
And according to McKellar, it was when her fellow GAC star Candace Cameron Bure gave her a Bible that she first felt consumed by the Holy Spirit.
“For me, reading the Bible, I felt so comforted,” she admitted. “And oddly so, even during the chapters like getting through Job, you know, and the poor guy, he’s suffering and his friends are like, ‘yeah well it’s probably your fault. It’s something you did.’ And it goes on and on and on. There’s still something comforting about it.”
“It’s got to be that it’s God,” the actress added. “God’s just in there. Again and again, we see that God rewards faithfulness, and God is good. And even through the hard stories, you can see the tough love in there, like a parent with his children.”
Further, McKellar says that in addition to the comfort she feels when reading the Bible, she’s also excited with her ongoing discovery that many of its stories are deeply ingrained in our culture.
McKellar, along with Bure, have become a staple on Great American Family as the network continues to grow and revive the concept of family centered entertainment amidst a world where Hollywood is infecting the industry with progressive messaging that stand opposed to the values of Jesus Christ.
In an industry that continues to promote Occultism, LGBTQ, Satanism, and racial division, McKellar is one of the few actors still willing to share a Bible believing Christian worldview in the face of such intense opposition.
To this end, the actress says that she’s eternally grateful for the truth she has learned from scripture and is excited to see just where her journey in Christ takes her.
“In a nutshell, I’ve always believed in God of some sort, but then I found my relationship with Jesus in a very profound way about a year and a half ago,” she said. “And it’s been an amazing journey becoming a believer.”
Danica McKellar’s testimony is a shining example in the simplicity in the Gospel of Christ found in John 6:40: “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
McKellar can be seen on Great American Family in the films Swing Into Romance and A Royal Date for Christmas.