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‘We fully “become” our true selves within relationships. A positive sense of self, rooted in worth and value, arises out of an attuned,...

Last year, some Living Waters friends from Thailand and China urged us at DSM/LW to gather international leaders again in Kansas City. I...

Dear ____, Bless you for finally being open about your same-sex attraction. That is a brave step and I pray that God and a faithful...

First, thank you for your commitment to your friend. Sometimes devout, energized persons like you can help prevent an already vulnerable...

‘In today’s society, we grant adults any kind of sexual freedom they want and insist that children take whatever these adults are willing...

‘Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint.’ (PR 29:18) Without vision from spiritual parents, God’s children wither. And...

‘All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to say nothing.’ For a Pope quick to quip about any number of thorny issues, Frances...

‘The Samaritan woman is every one of us. She is every human being who has ever sinned and betrayed the God who loved and made us, by...

‘Those who look to the Lord are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.’ (Ps 34:5) Today’s church is a strange blend of...

Starting next week, we at Desert Stream Ministries begin an 8-part prayer/intercession series designed to prepare us for Easter. Entitled...

‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow...

“In that day, declares the Lord, you will call me my husband; you will no longer call me my master…I will betroth you to me forever; I...

‘If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.’ (LK 9: 23) Jesus’ Cross is the foundation of our...

‘The Church must know the difference between order and disorder, and be wise enough to contextualize disorder with grace and truth.’ Dr....

‘Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert…and a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.’...

‘At the moment of Your death upon the cross, You opened an inexhaustible spring of Mercy for us, giving us Your dearest possession, the...

‘Because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked, be merciful as He is.’(Lk 6: 35, 6) Rattled by a hundred things, I raced into Mass the...

‘O blood and water that flows from the heart of the Savior as a fount of mercy for us, [we] trust in You!’ St. Faustina Today we...

“And the Lord said to Elijah: ‘I reserve 7000 in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and all whose mouths have not kissed him.’...

Take for example, his offhanded use of the English term ‘gay.’ Here he goes beyond affirming the dignity of persons with certain...