This has been big news elsewhere in the internets this week, but I haven’t yet seen it mentioned here at Ignitum Today. One of my fellow Patheos bloggers, Leah Libresco, announced on Monday that she is moving her popular blog Unequally Yoked from Patheos’ atheist portal to the Catholic portal. And she’s not moving for [...]
At long last, the zombie apocalypse is upon us. We’ve all known for some time that it was coming, which is why Hollywood has been helpfully delivering zombie movies that are increasingly plausible and practical. The zombie movie has been one of my favorite genres of movie since I was a teenager and was scarred [...]
I’ve been mulling over the idea of mercy killing and euthanasia for three days now, wondering what to write about, wondering what I thought about it all, watching terrible 70′s dystopian movies in the hopes that inspiration would strike, and generally just spinning my wheels. When I converted to Catholicism I got a crash-course in [...]
On Tuesday, my son Liam had an allergic reaction to a varicella vaccine. In the span of time it took me to recognize that he was having a reaction, dig my phone and the Epi-Pen out of my purse, uncap the Epi-Pen and call the doctor’s office we had just left, his face had swollen [...]
A few years ago, the Ogre and I attended an Interdisciplinary Studies conference at the University of Tulsa. At the time, the Ogre was wrapping up his coursework on his Master’s degree from the University of Dallas. We had both recently completed a class on Joseph Conrad, so the Ogre chose to present a paper [...]
Recently, our house has been ringing with the wails of a 3-year-old girl. Morning, afternoon, and evening, Charlotte can usually be found sitting in a corner somewhere, inexplicably screaming at 90 decibels despite having both fists shoved into her mouth. The cause of poor Charlotte’s distress has been our eternal engagement in the Epic Battle [...]
About this time of year, moms in all corners of the blogosphere pull out their boxing gloves and prepare to battle to the death to defend or decry Santa Claus. Here in the Catholic corner of the blogosphere, the “to Santa or not to Santa” battle takes on a different twist: Santa vs. St. Nicholas. [...]
Unless I missed something, this type of post has not yet been taken up here at Virtuous Pla.net. But I say, what good is having a community of witty, intelligent and somewhat like-minded individuals if you can’t engage in some friendly debate among yourselves? With that in mind, I have a bone to pick with [...]
Growing up a non-Catholic in a very anti-Catholic South made for some strange opinions about Catholicism. I remember writing a poem once in junior high that was ostensibly about how all the trappings and “works” of Catholicism don’t hide the spiritual desperation of a life lived without being saved. The poem was actually about how [...]
Those of you who are familiar with my blog know that my husband and I entered upon our journey toward a sacramental union on a very dark day for us…a day when a small plastic stick told us that we, unwed, immature, spiritually adrift and incredibly self-centered, had made a human being. Looking back, it’s [...]
My middle child, Charlotte, is two-and-a-half. In fact, she may be the most two-and-a-half two-and-a-half year old I think I’ve ever encountered. Among her many current charms is a complete inability to make a decision. She’ll waffle between two choices, physically moving toward one and then the other, doing a sort of side-step Charleston, [...]
Q. How do you pronounce “ignitum”? A. Well, you have some options. The Romans would have said ig-NEE-toom. In church, we’d say “in-YEE-toom.”
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