Life
Lianna Mueller

Your Wait is Not in Vain

Waiting is a theme in every human being’s life. Nothing that we aspire to or achieve comes without some sort of waiting period. Most people

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Life
Theresa Williams

The Best Lie You Could Ever Tell

My first Confirmation class (quite some years ago now) ended with an enticing cliffhanger: “Next week, I’ll teach you how to lie,” our teacher told

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Religion
Theresa Williams

The Call to Holiness in Our Time

Recently, I was watching the movie There Be Dragons about St. Josemaria Escriva and the Spanish Civil War, and I began thinking about the call to

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Columnists
Matthew Higgins

Ain’t Nobody Got Time…Enjoy It

Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin picking. It seems like I just finished putting away my bathing suit from summer vacation and already I’m seeing

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Columnists
Liesl Bee

Running with God

Earlier this summer, I was pleasantly surprised when I received my mid-year fitness summary: I had run over 100 miles in the previous four months.

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Life
Rachel Zamarron

Choosing Contentment

A few years ago, a mission trip took me to a small church in Africa. The sights the smells and the culture will forever shape

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Life
Abigail C. Reimel

The Necessary Virtue of Hope

During any phase of transition, the importance of the theological virtues of faith and love are always emphasized. One is counseled to have faith that

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Life
Megan Twomey

Peace for the Covetous Heart

Of all the commandments, “Thou shalt not covet,” never seemed the most difficult. I knew that I could be materialistic, could focus on things over

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Bioethics
Cristina Montes

On Evangelium Vitae and Star Wars

What was said about history being philosophy teaching by example can also be said of movies. Movies can illustrate philosophy (and even theology) by showing

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Columnists
Amanda Sloan

To See and Love as Him

I can’t stop talking about my daughter. Well, I could, but I have absolutely no desire to. I want to take a zillion more pictures

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Life
Morgan McFarlin

Living Life As It Is

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for

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Columnists
Theresa Williams

Too Anxious to Function

I’m a pretty anxious person – I have the prescription to prove it. I tend to look at the details of a situation and easily

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Family
Megan Twomey

Created to Be You

“So they’re both napping?” asked my husband, incredulous, “Can you nap?” Quiet time has been pretty rare around my house since my eldest abandoned naps

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Family
Emma King

The Healing Power of Hymns

If singing is praying twice, then praying hymns is more than simply praying twice. It is that by which we feed our souls, uplift our spirits, encounter the Lord, and in doing so, become whole when broken.

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Prayer
Abigail C. Reimel

Patience in the Desert

For forty days Christ suffered in the desert, fasting and depriving Himself of comfort, choosing to undergo hardship and temptation for the sake of teaching

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The Ultimate Planner

I’m a planner. While I cannot remember when I first developed this identity, my affinity for planning, having a plan, and keeping a plan has

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Dating
Abigail C. Reimel

When Waiting is Really Hard

In reaction to the increasing physical immorality spreading through society today, and in an attempt to counter the message  constantly being sold through advertising, movies,

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