
When Being Catholic Feels Complicated: Exploring Faith Through Honest Questions
It is an incredible gift to be given an intellect, an ability to interact with both the material and immaterial world around us...

How to practice the lost art of “stopping”
Work, family, plans with friends, sports … when do you take time to savor life?One of the problems that constantly comes up in ...

3 Reasons we desperately need Mary as our Mother
The life we live is Jesus, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The more we look to the Mother of that life, the more we come to k...

This Advent, Let’s Pray With Our Foremothers in the Faith
I fell in love with the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel decades ago, when I encountered it—in rapid succession—in both F...

Under Mary's Mantle
A four part Advent series on the nature and character of Mary, our Mother. Under Mary's Mantle – Part 1: Fiat Theology & Cultu...

10 Simple ways to slow down this Advent
Here are some concrete ways to open ourselves to hearing what God has to say this season Advent is more than half over. I know,...

9 Things You Can Do Right Now to Have A More Meaningful Advent
It really can be different this year.In a couple of weeks, as Americans recover from stuffing themselves with turkey and holdin...

6 Unique blessings of working when others are resting
For anyone on late shifts, holiday shifts, overtime, weekend shifts — this one’s for you.There’s a particular feeling that come...

The God of Real Time
Learning to number our days, personally and culturally More than 70 years ago, in the summer of 1945, the Second World War came...
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