I was scheduled to graduate from Villanova University in May 1979. I was a business major and near the top of my class grade-wise, and I had spent months...
Prayer
Have you ever prayed for something you wanted and then you waited and waited but ended up not getting what you asked for? Me too! That feels disappointing...
I was sitting on my bed in a moment of mental health crisis when I got a call from my friend Emily. (I changed her name for the purposes of anonymity.) I was...
Decades ago, when I was an English major, I imagined myself a poet. This was in part because I won a national poetry contest in high school that guaranteed me...
I was 20 when I first felt that God might be calling a baptized Episcopalian to join the Catholic Church, but it would be more than 10 years later before I...
As a former youth minister, I’ve played a lot of getting-to-know-you-type games in my adulthood. My main takeaway from all the icebreakers is that it serves a...
If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it still make noise? If a person lifts their praises and petitions to God without...
I’ve never been one to pray novenas, but I recently downloaded the Hallow app as research for another article I’m writing and, committed to trying out a...
When Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field during the January 2 Monday Night Football game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals, it felt like...
Let’s be real: Parenting is hard. I love being a parent, and it’s by far the most challenging, demanding, and sacrificial part of my life. It’s perfectly fine...
