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Long before I began learning God's plan for our sexuality, I confronted the issue of abortion. Wasn't because of a family crisis or a poor decision I made. I just felt I needed to have a viewpoint. I needed to take a side. I didn't do…
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I'm not the man God is calling me to be. A little more than 10 years ago, I didn't care who God was calling me to be. I wasn't listening to him. I believed he existed but I knew nothing about him, or His son, or the Holy Spirit. But in…
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I feel guilty sometimes about consulting Jenny before I make a charitable donation. Well, a little scared too, if I'm honest. For instance, it took the better part of a year before I got up enough courage to make a donation to…
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So I was driving to work this morning and a thought came to me while I was listening to #Catholic radio. A priest was being interviewed and he was talking about the #second coming. The thought was one I'd had before... I hope #jesus…
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It was 2006 and I was big into #The Secret. I had the video and then I bought the book. I swear to you I lost 7 lbs in one week by doing nothing more than thinking about losing weight. (That freaked me out. So much so I didn’t follow…
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I read the daily mass readings several times a week and always come away with something from them. Do I have a process for reading and reflecting on them? No. Do I make any resolutions to take action based on what I’ve read? No. Have they…
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I've been hearing the rumblings around church lately. Hot on the heels of the Year of Faith is likely to be the Year of Evangelization. Looks like mum's the word, at least officially, as we head into the latter half of Advent. My Google…
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I'm always amazed at how God's perfect timing is evident in my life. Recently, I was thinking about the road I traveled to become Catholic when an unexpected memory surfaced. There was a period of time when I was curious about religion but…
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On Being a Catholic Writer | Crisis Magazine9/3/12 Many Catholic writers have balked at being called that. They were Catholic and they wrote, all right, but they didn't want to be read as if the point of their fiction was a religious…
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