A friend recently confided to me that he and his dad had used ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence text chatbot, to write an obituary for his uncle. His dad...
Our Faith
Back in my days as a college pagan hedonist, I returned to my University of Washington dorm from Thanksgiving dinner with my parents having contracted a...
In February 2023, U.S. Catholic published an article called “The Catholics who refuse to leave” about a handful of Catholics who, despite frustration with...
When I was working on my memoir, Atchison Blue (Sorin Books), about my regular visits with the Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kansas, I met Sister Kathleen...
It crossed my mind recently that what I really need to be the parent I want to be is a personality transplant. When I think of the parents I most admire, in...
My podcast cohost, Marcia, is a huge Swiftie—she knows every word to every Taylor Swift song, the hidden messages in each album, and which periods of Taylor’s...
“Is God a boy?” my son asked me. He was almost 4 at the time, and he had already determined he was a boy and Mommy was a girl. He’d accepted a basic assumption...
For many Christians around the world, Christmas and Easter are the busiest and most anticipated holidays of the church year. Christmas is a joyous season for...
Attending Mass with young kids is much harder than it seems, and when Children’s Liturgy of the Word (CLOW) closed at my parish due to the COVID-19 pandemic...
“This wasn’t the book I wanted to write,” says Dominican Sister Laurie Brink about her recent book, The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God (Liturgical Press)...
