Andrew Comiskey
Flyover?
Kansas City. Cowtown? Coastal flyover zone? C’mon. We are the champions. As a focused Kingdom-minded guy, I am not that partial to...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 2, 2020
- 2 min
Best Group Ever
I kid you not. After 40 years of leading Living Waters groups, I just finished the best one ever. These twenty weeks rolled out like a...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 20, 2020
- 2 min
Fierce, Tender Love
‘Each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked.’ (Neh.4:18) Fighting for wholeness is at once a personal and corporate...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 20, 2019
- 3 min
Behold the Sham
‘You are the truth presiding over all things. But in my greed, I was unwilling to lose You, and wanted to have You at the same time as...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 6, 2019
- 3 min
Surrounded 2: Mending the Net
Since becoming Catholic, I’m more aware than ever of the ignorant, prejudicial attitudes that pervade both sides of our divided Church....
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Andrew Comiskey
- Sep 29, 2019
- 3 min
Surrounded 1: Chariots of Fire
It can be tough to burn with hope for some LGBT+ persons; allergic to chastity, alive to sensational new ‘sexualities’, they frame us as...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Sep 15, 2019
- 3 min
Living Bread, for the World
Long before I centered on the Eucharist as the focus of worship—the real meal that Catholics celebrate–I understood this breaking of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jul 7, 2019
- 3 min
Abuse and Authority
The Church’s authority to restore sexually broken people with the power that raised Jesus from the dead hinges on her repenting from...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 30, 2019
- 3 min
Restoring the Spire
Our gendered humanity—submitted to one another in reverence to Christ (Eph. 5:21)—points beyond itself. It reveals the One who made us to...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 19, 2019
- 3 min
Fruit of Scandal
‘For you became sorrowful as God intended…Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Apr 17, 2019
- 1 min
Fire. Burning. Notre Dame.
Fire. Burning. Notre Dame. Judgment at our house, right here, us. More than a sign of French resilience: a church, our Church. ‘Bearing’...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Apr 14, 2019
- 3 min
Bearing
Though I love the benefits of Jesus’ cross, I am tempted to hate sharing in that cross with Him. It hurts to bear up under the burden He...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Apr 7, 2019
- 4 min
Securing a Father’s Foundations
In prayer with our Lenten group, I saw a flag pole waving an image of the Lamb of God; at a closer glance I could see its base had...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Apr 3, 2019
- 5 min
Humble King
I sent out a series of questions to my favorite priests and Rev. Msgr William J King who runs a Living Waters group in his parish...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 31, 2019
- 4 min
Radiance from the Ruins: Praying for Priests
What had been alien to me—a black-coated mystery, heady and aloof, men in rectories, celibate yet suspect—became engaging and vital...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 24, 2019
- 3 min
Grieving the Divides
In her face, I witnessed my sorrow and somehow could feel it. My friend conveyed simple pain over her (natural) father’s ongoing...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 17, 2019
- 3 min
Liberating Chastity
Chastity has taken a lot of hits lately. Many would deem this ‘successful integration of sexuality within the person’ (#2337) a failure,...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 10, 2019
- 3 min
Blemished
My face is a mess. Overexposed for years in the California sun, it now looks like rugged desert terrain, baked red by heat. I am...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 3, 2019
- 2 min
Killing The Truth
The other night, I dreamt of complicity—a good friend and colleague had been pronounced innocent of murder yet I knew otherwise. She...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 24, 2019
- 3 min
Good Natured
‘Just as there is a momentum to evil, so is there a momentum to repentance.’ Sour moods tempt me easily these days. As bishops from...
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