Andrew Comiskey
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Listens
Pope Francis, Forgive my mild resistance to the ‘synod on synodality.’ The name itself tempts me to revert to evangelicalism; I resist. I...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 13
- 2 min
Open Letter to Pope Francis
Dear Pope Francis, I write this as one father to another. We share a deep love for Jesus and Church. I honor your weighty fatherhood as...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 29: Fruitful Fathers
St. John Paul II rallied more men to the priesthood than any pope in modern history. Everywhere I go in the Catholic world I witness...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 9, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 27: Restoring Woman’s Dignity
‘He suffused me without difficulty, burst my shame and the thoughts I’d suppressed… As if He had touched a rhythm in my temples and...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 25, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 12: Workers
‘I’m change in His pocket. He can spend me any way He wants.’ John Wimber Both Wimber and Karol Wojtyla died as apostolic Christian...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 24, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 11: Kingdom and Cross
‘If God’s got me nailed to the cross for my good, I’m not going to climb down off the cross and wreck the whole purpose of this painful...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 9: Gospel Ground
‘Whenever I remember the beautiful days of our salvation, I can almost smell the orange blossoms again. The whole experience for both of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 21, 2022
- 3 min
Dignify and Deploy 8: Redeeming Love
“Before I was born the Lord called me…He made my mouth like a sharpened sword; in the shadow of His hand He hid me. He made me into a...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Dignify and Deploy 7: Rough Starts
Hardships in childhood hinder and help. Much seems to depend on the person experiencing them. For John Wimber and Karol Wojtyla, gaps in...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 19, 2022
- 2 min
Dignify and Deploy 6: Masters of Integration, Part 2
‘Man must enter into Him with all his own self; he must appropriate and assimilate the whole reality of the Incarnation and redemption.’...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 18, 2022
- 2 min
Dignify and Deploy 5: Masters of Integration, Part 1
John Wimber and Karol Wojtyla possessed sharp creative minds that joined together disparate ideas. The resulting wholeness became a love...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
Made New, Together
‘When You send Your Spirit, they are created; You renew the face of the earth.’ (PS 104:30) The branches are beckoning. Two peach trees I...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 16, 2022
- 3 min
Pope Francis Urges LGBTQ+ Community to Repent in the Power of the Holy Spirit
I’ve been waiting all my Catholic life for this. In response to Fr. Martin’s questions about how the Church should respond to the rainbow...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 7, 2022
- 2 min
Why Fear the One We Love?
We have lost holy fear. A virtual search on the topic yielded an underwear ad and a 5-point tract on why we don’t need to fear God...
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Dean Greer
- Jan 31, 2022
- 2 min
Place at the Table
By Dean Greer This Sunday we at Desert Stream Ministries bring our Living Waters Training to the Theology of the Body community. I...
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Marco Casanova
- Jan 12, 2022
- 3 min
‘New Ways’? No Way
By Marco Casanova Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 8, 2022
- 3 min
Manifest
‘To make obvious or clear to the eye of one’s heart’ (Gr. epiphany). True desires of the heart may languish until someone manifests what...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 1, 2022
- 3 min
Treasure
‘Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart’ (Lk. 2:19, 51). Aging agitates me. Docility flows not peaceably from...
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Abigail Foard
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
Day 36: Beauty of Her Devotion
By Abbey Foard DSM Executive Director St. Thomas Aquinas’ (1225-1274) hymn, Adoro te Devote, captured me with its melody when I heard it...
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Marco Casanova
- Nov 13, 2021
- 2 min
Day 32: Freedom to Forge Community
By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director A couple of years ago, Andrew and I were running a half-marathon. On route, we passed my midtown...
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