I didn’t realize that my 3-year-old likes popcorn. But more significantly, I didn’t realize that I didn’t know things about my 3-year-old. I was awakened to...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
I was not the most diligent kid when it came to participating in the Mass. As soon as my family entered the church one block away from our home, I would grab a...
My favorite photo of my husband and son was taken in the early hazy days of parenthood when the latter was about 2 weeks old. It’s not a very good photo by...
This past semester I had the opportunity to teach a yoga class to my honors Foundations in Theology students in the chapel on my university’s campus. As I...
Most of what I read about the topic of vocation strikes me as trite and cliché. “Listen to your inner voice.” “Follow God’s call.” “Allow yourself to be led by...
The cliché—though it’s true—is that kids teach their parents far more than their parents teach them. I have found this most often to be the case in perspective...
Once I filled out the online survey, the flood began: Apparently I had not been discerning enough in my responses to the survey questions, because I think...
Sullivan McCormick paced the sidewalk for 10 minutes before he had the courage to stop. Finally, leaning next to a fire hydrant on a street corner in...
In November 2021 hundreds of people turned up at Dealey Plaza in Dallas (the site of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963) because they and their...
For those discerning the priesthood and religious life, celibacy is often one of the main barriers to entry. I spent the latter half of my undergraduate career...
