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March 2015

March 28, 2015
As a Protestant convert to Catholicism whose journey culminates a week from today, at the...
March 26, 2015
I'm convinced, utterly, that confession is the single greatest gift God gave this weary world....
March 19, 2015
This Easter I become a Catholic. It's been a strange, unexpected journey. Something I often...
March 17, 2015
We need to make an honest examination of our beliefs. We need to, prayerfully, come...
March 14, 2015
Prosperity Gospel Mega-Church Pastor Creflo Dollar is in the news again. This time it's for...
March 10, 2015
I do not know Rachel Held Evans apart from the fact that she wrote A...
March 06, 2015
Father Gabriele Amorth is a fascinating man. Until very recently, the elderly Italian priest served...
March 02, 2015
I've always said the last thing that I want to do is to put down my...

February 2015

February 25, 2015
I've held a grudge for a long time, I'm not proud to say. I'm not...
February 20, 2015
The Catholic life is a sacramental life. The means, at its core, that Catholicism teaches that God's...
February 17, 2015
This year my Lenten experience is going to be weird. At Easter, baring supernatural intervention,...
February 12, 2015
It was a friend from elementary school, a guy I hadn't seen in some fifteen...
February 10, 2015
Satan cannot drive out Satan. A house, or a kingdom, cannot be divided against itself....
February 09, 2015
I've written before about digging deep into Church history and the sort of dangerous pursuit...
February 07, 2015
It goes nearly without saying that the prime objection of the Protestant to Catholicism is...
February 03, 2015
When I originally set out on this journey from Protestantism to Catholicism I didn't know...
February 01, 2015
Since digging deeper into Catholic theology it's become clear to me that, for those who swear...

January 2015

January 28, 2015
I've written recently about how the setbacks and difficulties I've experienced while becoming Catholic have...
January 26, 2015
Somewhere along the way I picked up this quote by Henri Nouwen and, lately, it's...
January 22, 2015
I've written a lot about sola scriptura, the Reformation belief that Scripture---the Bible---is the ultimate authority...
January 21, 2015
I have a story to tell. Unlike most stories we tell I don't think this...
January 19, 2015
I've been following the Pope for some time now, beginning around the election of Pope...
January 15, 2015
Ask my wife, I'm not always altogether emotionally stable. It's no secret. Sometimes I get...
January 10, 2015
I'm gonna say a swear. I have to warn you. That's the cordial thing to do. It...
January 09, 2015
The truth is a trap. I've recently devoured G.K. Chesterton's The Catholic Church and Conversion....
January 07, 2015
I never, for even a second, want to diminish my spiritual journey as a Protestant....
January 06, 2015
As I've been making my way towards the Catholic Church I've thought a lot about...
January 04, 2015
There are times when I approach this monstrous topic, and this tiny blog, when I...

December 2014

December 30, 2014
I'm reading N.T. Wright's Scripture and the Authority of God because, up until a few moments...
December 29, 2014
As a Protestant fully on his way to a Catholic conversion one of chief sources...
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