Helping the Persecuted in the Middle East
ISIS has been in the news again, and it brings to mind the people who are being persecuted for their faith throughout the Middle East. I’ve written before about a grassroots effort to help those...
View ArticleReblogged: I’m Like Chicken Man!
After learning that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting again, and suffering again from hyperemesis gravidarum, I thought I would re-post this piece. For more on my background with HG, you can also...
View ArticleOn This Anniversary: Above My Pray-grade
Christine Johnson:Last year, I talked about an experience I had in which I learned how to pray for my enemies. In today’s Gospel, Jesus commands us to not only pray for them, but also to love our...
View ArticleMoral Culpability: Vaccines and Cheese & Crackers (Updated)
There’s been a lot of buzz for a long time over vaccinations, and some Catholic parents have chosen not to vaccinate over a fear of being morally complicit if they use vaccines that were developed...
View ArticleBias Anyone Can See
My older daughter had a research paper to do for tenth grade. The paper would also have to be persuasive in nature, and she was given a list of topics to choose from. She chose the topic dealing with...
View ArticleWhat Are the Alternatives? #ShowUsYourList!
We all know there’s a movie we shouldn’t go to see, which is based on books we should read. All of Catholic media was talking about the forbidden fruit of 50 Shades of Grey. But last Friday, Erin...
View ArticleTiny Lights in the Darkness
I have actually been avoiding reading much of the news lately. It’s so depressing to read how far from Christianity our culture is moving — not to mention how rapidly. When I read about small...
View ArticleHammers, Sickles, and the Benefit of the Doubt
There are some Catholics who are so bent on finding things wrong with our pope that they’ll jump to the first conclusion (usually wrong) to be able to complain publicly about him. They’ll stick to it,...
View ArticleTurning a Blind Eye to Evil in the Name of Good
Suppose our government was funding an organization that taught at-risk children to read and tutored inner city kids, but also employed people who were systematically abusing the children in their care....
View Article#WorthRevisiting: You Don’t Help by Objectifying Me (Or: Why I Hate Breast...
Welcome to Worth Revisiting Wednesday, hostsed by Reconciled to You and Theology is a Verb. This is a chance to pull a good post from the archives and share it again! With every October, we are...
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