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March 2019

March 07, 2019
There is a figure often thrown out by Catholic apologists to demonstrate just how fractured...
March 06, 2019
  Every year at this time the "Remember That You Are Butt Dust" meme starts...
March 05, 2019
One of the ever-bearing gifts of the Catholic Church is incredible depth of her teaching. Spanning over two...

February 2019

February 27, 2019
I was recently in a conversation about science and religion with a stranger in a...
February 25, 2019
It's only too easy to become discouraged as a Catholic these days. When I came...
February 21, 2019
I recently heard a shocking statistic out of the United States: only about 39 percent...
February 20, 2019
This article is part of the Tough Questions series. A series highlighting some of the...

January 2019

January 31, 2019
I've never been particularly big at New Year's resolutions but when a priest friend of...
January 23, 2019
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote that "to be deep in history is to cease...
January 22, 2019
This article is part of the Tough Questions series. A series highlighting some of the...
January 13, 2019
This article is part of the Tough Questions series. A series highlighting some of the...
January 08, 2019
I remember hearing an interview with Jennifer Fulwiler years ago where she talked about her...

December 2018

December 05, 2018
I was an Evangelical Protestant, and I loved it. Then I became a Catholic. As...

November 2018

November 07, 2018
  I've heard it described, by more than one convert, that becoming a Catholic after...

October 2018

October 18, 2018
Way back at Christmastime, just after our second child was born, I perfected the art...

September 2018

September 20, 2018
It's Friday night after work and of all the places I could be, I'm here. In...

August 2018

August 26, 2018
It's Sunday morning and we're getting dressed for Mass. Our son, three years old, is...
August 20, 2018
The news of the sexual abuse scandal out of Pennsylvania has rocked the global Catholic...
August 17, 2018
So I have this weird affinity for rough towels. Hear me out. Ever since I...
August 16, 2018
Somewhere in the middle of my journey out of Evangelicalism into the Catholic Church a...
August 07, 2018
Let's play a word association game. When I say, "Vatican II," what do you think...

July 2018

July 17, 2018
As a young Evangelical, my understanding of Christian sexual ethics was, at best, a piecemeal...
July 13, 2018
In basically all of the developed world obesity is a growing crisis. People---adults and, sadly,...
July 12, 2018
Lately, I've become enamoured with St. Thomas Aquinas. After reading G.K. Chesterton's biography of the...

June 2018

June 20, 2018
After a rousing thirty minutes of worship music, I settled into my seat to listen...
June 12, 2018
One of the most beautiful things about being Catholic is that no matter how long...

May 2018

May 25, 2018
As a younger Evangelical I once went door to door conducting a so-called research survey....
May 09, 2018
Hello, reader. And welcome. Let's, right off the bat, talk about the crazy things that...
May 01, 2018
As a result of my writing, I end up getting a lot of e-mails and...

April 2018

April 27, 2018
As an Evangelical convert to Catholicism I've been deeply interesting in the growing movement within...
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