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Does the Church Kill ‘Gay’ People?
Part 1: Mistaken Identity Simon Kent Fung does. Believe the Church kills ‘gay’ people, that is, like Alana Chen on whom he based his...

Andrew Comiskey
Sep 11, 20233 min read
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Mercy From Rome
Previously published on March 21, 2010 While doing a conference in Denver many years ago, a vigorous young man introduced himself to me...

Andrew Comiskey
Aug 7, 20233 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Feb 20, 20232 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Feb 13, 20232 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 11, 20223 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 9, 20223 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 25, 20223 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 24, 20223 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 22, 20223 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 21, 20223 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 20, 20222 min read
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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.’...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 19, 20222 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 18, 20222 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Aug 1, 20222 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
May 16, 20223 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Mar 7, 20222 min read
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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...

Dean Greer
Jan 31, 20222 min read
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‘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...

Marco Casanova
Jan 12, 20223 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 8, 20223 min read
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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...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 1, 20223 min read
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