Yet Another Reason to Love Trader Joe’s

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“In other words, money is important, but people are even more so.”

Does Loneliness Kill the Soul?

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“And here’s some more good news about your loneliness: It might just be shortening your life.”

TK and the Clichés of Our Day

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Taken one at a time, clichés don’t seem so harmful. But what if they were all consumed in one sitting?

What Should I Wear to Church?

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The tech boom of the 90s was a heady time of enormous newfound wealth and human progress. However, in 2001, the spectacular bubble burst after years of euphoric investors bidding up shoddy dot-coms with no earnings and no profitability in sight. The momentary millionaires and billionaires were gone. Pets.com, once a Wall Street darling, failed [...]

Every Sunday Is a Little Easter Sunday

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In a few days, it will be Easter Sunday, which, for many years now, has been the holiday I most look forward to celebrating. Growing up, it was customary in my family for the kids to get a new outfit for Easter and to wake up that morning to a basket full of candy. There [...]

Frequently Searched Questions: Antimatter Opposed by the Church

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The following are actual search terms people typed into Google (Yahoo?) which directed them to CaPC. In most cases they didn’t find the answer they were looking for on our site. FSQ is an attempt to remedy this problem by answering some of the most (de)pressing questions sent to us through search terms. This week’s theme is [...]

Don’t Worry, Vicky (An Open Letter to Victoria’s Secret)

Dear Vicky, I know it’s been a rough week for you.  That blog post about your “Bright Young Things” advertising campaign went viral, and suddenly parents everywhere are freaking out thinking that you want to sell bras and underwear – and a sexy image – to teen and preteen girls. But relax. You’re not doing [...]

Can We Learn From Kids and Their Toys?

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“Galimberti’s photos are a helpful reminder that I need to be thoughtful about the toys and other possessions that I give my children because I want them to be thoughtful about their material goods.”

The Landslide of Terror: Living in This Present Darkness

This week I was leisurely skimming through music performances on YouTube. It was nice, one of those times when one good song leads to another good song and so on. At the time, I was looking for new country covers of classic songs. I had just finished up with an absolutely wonderful cover of Gram [...]

Christian Responses to Gay Marriage: CaPC Thoughts on Same-Sex Marriage

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Over the years, CaPC has written about the issue of gay marriage in a number of ways. This is not a simple or easy issue for anyone to deal with, although at times we all feel it to be. The following is a list of the top posts we’ve written on same-sex marriage, starting with [...]