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Editor’s Note: Annette wrote this year-end piece about wounded systems and symptoms. I loved it and thought it worth repeating. What is...

Please. We love the Holy Family: Joseph, Mary, Jesus. As the embodiment of binary goodness, we need their witness more than ever. Think...

I’m grateful, even joyful about changes going on at IHOP. Aquinas said joy was a state of well-being based on reality. Let’s get real....

I love the International House of Prayer (IHOP). Its crisis is our crisis. In ’99, Mike and Diane Bickle shifted from pastoring a church...

Pope Francis said in early October that he would bless same-sex unions. He made it official today in a rare declaration from the...

‘What serious Catholics should be looking for in this era of unsettlement is a synthesis, a viewpoint that makes sense of change in the...

‘If the essence of Advent is expectancy, it is also a readiness for action: watchfulness for every opening, and willingness to risk...

‘How do we measure the gravity of sin and the incomparable vastness of God’s love for us? By looking at the magnitude of what God has...

Thankful. You help us stay true. Of all the treasures of 2023, our 40 days together of ‘rousing Her radiance’ shines brightest for me....

Rousing Her Gently, Firmly ‘Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for Her, to make Her holy,...

Blazing ‘I am not afraid. God is with me. He made me for this.’ - Joan of Arc ‘I have come to set the world on fire, and how I wish it...

The Child is a Warrior ‘I have quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me' (Ps....

Magnificent Seed ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in a field. Though it is the smallest of all...

Becoming Home ‘Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The Lord will...

Courage and Common Sense ‘These men began to argue with Stephen, but they could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by which he...

Contending for the Good News ‘Our Gospel came to you, not simply with words, but with power, with the Holy Spirit, and with deep...

Contending for Justice ‘In the darkness of the unexpressed, sin poisons the whole of a man.’ - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Give me a bold sinner...

Bridal Tears ‘Mary triumphs with the sword in heart, not hand.’ - Cardinal Christoph Schonborn Loving Christ’s body hurts. The more we...

Unconverted Lives ‘Is the price we are paying today with the collapse of the organized churches anything else but an inevitable...

Free Fall ‘Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Defender is strong; He will take...