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Prepared to Give an Answer: Introduction
I’ve fasted, prayed, cried, discerned, talked late into countless nights with friends and mentors, begged my God to lead me into what was true and away from what was false. And now, I have arrived on the doorstep of the Catholic Church. For so many people I have spoken with, this fact alone invalidates every…
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Sola Scriptura | Prepared to Give an Answer
The question demanded to be asked: How can you claim your only authority is Scripture while you’re actively arguing about what Scripture is?
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Testimony II | Prepared to Give an Answer
If liturgical churches just chanted and prayed the same things every week, I was certain I would start tuning it out regardless of whether I meant to or not. I learned, however, that there’s a subtle difference between repetition and rhythm.
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Reflections on a Year of Catholicity
When I think back on the last year—big things and all—I think about how quiet everything has become.
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Prayer to the Saints | Prepared to Give an Answer
To say that we’re not connected to the Saints who have passed on, then, is cutting Christ’s sacrifice short—did He conquer death, or didn’t he?
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Sacramental Theology | Prepared to Give an Answer
I simply turned around one day and realized something profound: that I couldn’t believe that God—who so loved the world that he became man—had chosen to stop meeting men where He always had.
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Prepared to Give an Answer: Testimony Part 1
The easiest place to start this particular story is to jump to the start of the era: my first year of college. Much of my faith was deeply formed in my later high school years – my graduating class had something of a dramatic, charismatic revival in our senior year – and that will be
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but the Lord was not in the wind | (freeform)
When I was young, I used to lay under the covers and clench a muscle in my jaw that made the ever-present hissing in my ears rise in pitch, just for a moment, and then fall to something like a ringing rain, something that sounded like what the thousands of tiny pinpricks in my vision
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Lidocaine & Liturgy
Sometimes life needs a little more liturgy to center us on what’s most important; but sometimes, each day gives us enough liturgy of its own.
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On Deconstruction: Or, Why Josh Harris Did the Right Thing
Josh Harris’s deconstruction may just be the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
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