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September 2013

September 11, 2013
This week I read through "Pastrix" by Nadia Bolz-Weber. This book offers the meandering journey of...
September 06, 2013
As I'm sure you know, Pope Francis has called for tomorrow to be observed as...
September 06, 2013
Over the last few years I have found my life gradually moving from doing ministry...
September 04, 2013
After a few months of meeting together my spiritual director made the observation "you seem...
September 01, 2013
Today's post is written by Bishop Oscar Cantú of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces.In my line...

August 2013

August 28, 2013
This week I had the opportunity to chat with Fred Bahnson to talk about “Soil...
August 22, 2013
Daniel Tobin, Director of Catholic Evangelical Relations at Glenmary Home Missioners, has written this guest post...
August 21, 2013
My decision to join the Catholic church happened after a year of discernment that was...
August 21, 2013
Today the Catholic church remembers one the great pope of the early 20th Century Pius...
August 03, 2013
This week Rachel Held Evans wrote a response to her somewhat controversial article on why...

July 2013

July 31, 2013
I'm not typically one to put much stock in "proofs" for God, but I had...
July 27, 2013
Having spent 8 years as a youth minister I often spoke with students who were...
July 05, 2013
I remember when I was first getting into ministry a mentor of mine told me...
July 02, 2013
When I was a kid, I was taught a lot of things by rote:The AlphabetThe...

June 2013

June 26, 2013
Prayer is both one of the most basic as well as one of the most...

May 2013

May 08, 2013
If you hadn't heard Dallas Willard has died. He has been an influential voice in...
May 05, 2013
Did you know that the cathedral of Otranto in southern Italy is decorated with the...
May 05, 2013
Today is Easter in many of the Eastern Churches. i thought this compilation of Eastern Resurrection hymns was just...
May 05, 2013
The first time I went to a Catholic church I felt pretty confused. People were...
May 04, 2013
I recently got into a discussion over infant baptism with a few of my friends...
May 03, 2013
I'm not sure you saw this video where it seems a women on argues that...
May 03, 2013
PBS just made a video of iconographer Seraphim O’Keefe. I was struck by something he...
May 03, 2013
I ran into this video today. It reminded me of a prayer in the Theophany...

April 2013

April 24, 2013
This week  the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about liturgical theology,...
April 20, 2013
The question "are sacraments magic?" is one that comes up surprisingly often in my life....
April 16, 2013
This week  the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about incarnational theology,...
April 10, 2013
This week  the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about incarnational theology,...
April 01, 2013
This week  the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about who Jesus is and...

March 2013

March 28, 2013
Does anyone else feel like this Pope is redefining what you thought was possible for...
March 28, 2013
Today the pope will wash the feet of incarcerated young people as he chooses to celebrate Holy...
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