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

‘As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O...

‘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...

Grateful for this tiny Adoration chapel: a safe space to love this Head whose Body threatens to divide my heart. Like you, I’ve wounds...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

Dear Friends, We at Desert Stream Ministries love the Church, from cathedrals to home groups. Your support empowers us to focus and...

Marco Casanova and Andrew Comiskey Is it “disloyal” or “schismatic” to respectfully disagree with the pope? We’ve been wrestling with...

‘We have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. Rather, by setting forth the...

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....

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

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

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...

Ugly Orthodoxy The priest corrected our errant ways throughout one of our Living Waters trainings. We discovered this together as team...

How Solid Witnesses Unite a Divided Church ‘Modern man listens to witnesses more than teachers.’- Pope Paul VI Marco and Ania shared...

Leveraging Church Hypocrisy #1 ‘If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who I am to judge him?’- Pope Francis The leaning...

Repentance ‘There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God’- Ps. 46:4 Turn from the false and dive into the depths of His...

Peace Like a River ‘The hope of Christianity, the prospect of faith is ultimately based quite simply on the fact that it tells the...

Binary Beauty ‘He who has not the Church as Mother cannot have God as Father.’- Henri DeLubac My parish has two rather exquisite statues...

Ordering Our Courts ‘Beauty is the radiance of truth.’- Thomas Aquinas I love this Church. Strength and clarity for the day arises from...