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  I crave the pyre because I am              cold...

  One of the most surprising things about living in a foreign country is how...

    Have the stuffing, she says It's quite delicious, she says It won't hurt...

Advent fast approaches. With it comes all the gleaming misrepresentations and farce, in both the...

I think they live in the past here. A large comfy city built of small...

  I've been thinking about witches since autumn began.   I never much liked or...

  Living down the road from the house where I was raped, I can’t help...

Good evening, wanderers of the internet frontier.   I am Jennifer, or Jenn if you...

    Jessica Mesman Griffith has got me started on a horror binge recently.  ...

  Where were you, He asked me, when my little ones came to you, broken,...

Hi y'all. No, I'm not dead yet. Yes, I've been a horrible blogger for nearly...

  Editor's note: At The Shoeless Banshee we have published some strong women's responses (here...

  ***Trigger Warning--Self-Harm***   My first tattoo was my golden birthday present to myself (when...

  *UPDATE* Dr. Jack Barto, the pediatrician who molested me as a child and later...

  Yesterday an image showed up in my Facebook newsfeed: overlaid in front of a...

  Grace scares me.   There it is, in black and white. I don’t know...

  There wasn’t a cloud in the blue sky as my friend and I drove...

  Good men, I’m guessing you have at least one friend in your life who...

  How can the baptized claim to welcome Christ if they close the door to...

“No, sweetie, I’m sure that she doesn’t want your shoe.”   The toddler sitting behind...

Image Source:  walknboston on flickr     Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in...

  Several weeks ago, I read a question-and-answer column in our local Catholic newspaper (or...

  What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase “Traditional Femininity”?   Maybe...

  As you may or may not have noticed, I was on a lengthy sabbatical...

The Washington Examiner recently published a piece on the recent controversy over the failure of...

  I’ve been recently privileged to grow close to Franciscan University alumna Theresa Williams. She...

Trust me when I say there is no satisfaction in revealing your abuser.   It...

  Conservative Franciscan graduate shares his concern and disillusionment I have debated how to speak...

  A child-victim of sexual assault opens up about the recent Title IX controversy at...

    This post is hard to write. I’m not exactly sure how to write...