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‘The desert…will blossom’ (Is. 35:1).   Between a garden profuse with exotically colored peonies and a houseful of saints celebrating...

‘What the Church needs going forward is a leader who can marry personal simplicity with a passion for converting the world to Jesus...

I’m not sleeping well. I wake up, add 7 hours to the time, and pray for the Conclave.   No need to stump in Rome; my prayers and yours...

The best-kept secret of Pope Francis’ papacy? Robust chastity, blazing in sinner’s sick of filth and on fire for the One who forgave and...

Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis just two years into my Catholic commitment. This began a deeply personal, disruptive, and...

Nathan is a Londoner who attends a thriving church in the city. That community models how to welcome the unchurched and help them worship...

‘He afflicted you with hunger then fed you…’ (Deut. 8:3).   I hungered for Jesus and community and California after leaving IHOP-KC. Why...

Can wounds make us more whole? Hope so. An exhaustive account of the IHOP-KC mess is in vain unless we allow its findings to change us....

The film Conclave  dramatizes what the word means: Catholic cardinals who gather to choose a new pope.   What the film fails to convey is...

‘John! John! Wake up! Jesus is God’s Son! Jesus is God’s Son!’ (Carol to John on her conversion, The Way It Was )   Carol saw what others...

‘Despise not prophecy,’ implores St. Paul (1 Th. 5:20). Yet we do. Amid the rubble of leaders whose unclean lives skewed real prophetic...

Weird reunion. Annette’s older ‘gay’-identified brother John, unraveling in San Francisco, needed family. His friends had died or given...

Would you join me in praying for France? Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral reopens today after being nearly destroyed in a 2019 fire. Her...

The US Supreme Court just finished oral arguments concerning Tennessee’s statewide ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for...

One from the Heart  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    As a result of my expressed uneasiness over Trump, a friend...

Christian Nation?    ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17)  I’m grateful to be an alien in America. On one hand, I am a...

Hard Pressed   'As aliens, live in reverent fear.' (1 Pet. 1:17)     Any Christian with a conscience is perplexed by this election year....

What a privilege to be a masculine force for the good! Fathers always impact children, for better or for worse. Dr. Joseph Nicolosi...

Fathering is pure joy to me. It’s who I am and how I am, made in the Father’s image to generate new life and tend to it.   To tend to him...

Originally Published 01/01/18 Two weeks ago, a Roman Catholic priest from Milwaukee came out as ‘gay’—made by God that way—to his...