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Lent is next week, and even though I've been allegedly "looking ahead" since right after Christmas, but I feel ill-prepared an...

Abby Johnson, author and speaker, will be in the Peoria area this week, and I for one am very excited to hear her speak.  She will be speaki...

What does it mean to be “an intentional disciple”? What does it mean to be a disciple at all? Are you one?  How many do you know? An e...

Update: I've updated this post to reflect more of how this guest post came to be written and shared here.  When I was getting ready to...

Today is the 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion throughout pregnancy.  It's a sad...

Serendipity is pretty cool, if you ask me. It seems like I've been thinking about and reading about food a lot lately, whether online ...

Here is my January column that appears in this weekend's edition of The Catholic Post .  I invite your feedback here or elsewhere onlin...

Tomorrow, my column that appears in this weekend's edition of The Catholic Post will post here on the blog. This year, for my traditi...

Year's end is a great time to take stock of the past calendar year and make some new-year resolutions. Faith at "Strewing"an...

Here is my December column that appears in this weekend’s print The Catholic Post .  I invite your feedback here, or on Facebook or Twitte...

I was so grateful when  Bonnie Engstrom of "A Knotted Life"  (as part of her Advent series) asked me to write about Advent traditi...

I'm excited to share that I've been invited to be part of the Advent series hosted by Bonnie at A Knotted Life.    Kicking off the ...

As I wrote in my October column , Sister Helena Burns is an expert on media literacy and Theology of the Body, a Catholic new media maven,...

Here is my November column from this weekend's print edition of The Catholic Post .   I invite your feedback. “Without prayer, there ...