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March 2017

March 30, 2017
Early in his pontificate, Pope Francis likened the Catholic Church to a field hospital. Rather...
March 28, 2017
I didn't know about the saints until my thirties but I came by my ignorance...
March 15, 2017
When Jesus prayed, in the Gospel of John, for all future Christians he prayed, "that...
March 13, 2017
As I stood in what seemed like the longest line on earth---penance for something, somewhere,...
March 08, 2017
One of the ever-bearing gifts of the Catholic Church is incredible depth of her teaching. Spanning over two...
March 06, 2017
  The prosperity Gospel movement is bizarre given that Jesus was unequivocal about wealth but,...
March 03, 2017
In a Church that celebrates the Rosary, changes its liturgical vestments for every season, and...
March 01, 2017
Every Lent, for the past several years, I've given up complaining. It's liberating. And soul-making....

February 2017

February 21, 2017
As an Evangelical Christian I understood the "Body of Christ" or "the Church" (capital C)...
February 17, 2017
Somewhere in those early days of university I made a definitive choice not to drink...
February 15, 2017
When Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church he...
February 13, 2017
In the Catholic Church I've found an incredible, unimaginable home. It's miles from anything I'd...
February 08, 2017
I once watched a debate on biblical authority between a Catholic priest and an Evangelical...
February 06, 2017
A paradigm shift occurs when the number of compelling facts and figures from a competing...
February 02, 2017
There's a quotation buried near the end of a rather obscure book review by Protestant...

January 2017

January 31, 2017
I am a recovering Evangelical. At the age of fifteen I had a coming-of-age epiphany,...
January 24, 2017
So you handpainted your placard to picket the local abortion clinic. So you like, share,...
January 11, 2017
Sin is a dirty word. As an Evangelical Protestant we rarely spoke about it. I...

December 2016

December 16, 2016
Some nights make me wonder what the heck we pray for.
December 15, 2016
I snuck out today, on my forty-minute lunch break, to spend some time sitting in...
December 09, 2016
I'm utterly convinced that confession is the single greatest gift God gave to our weary world....
December 06, 2016
While the association of Santa Claus with the birth of Christ---and the roots of the...
December 01, 2016
It’s just after 5 o’clock on Saturday and I hustle, as quiet as I can,...

November 2016

November 14, 2016
The sometimes torrential flow of Catholics leaving the Church for Evangelical traditions can be baffling...
November 11, 2016
My gosh, this election. It's been long, difficult, and ugly. I was hoping that the...
November 09, 2016
Hello, America. So, for whatever reason you've suddenly got your heart set on making the move...
November 03, 2016
I've written before about the laudable Catholic practice of praying for the dead---and that the...

October 2016

October 26, 2016
The Lutheran church down the street from our house has a sign that proudly proclaims,...
October 25, 2016
Easily one of the most frequent objections to Catholicism that I hear is that it's...
October 12, 2016
I am the world's greatest teacher. I have a mug that says so. In fact...
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