CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN: by Jennifer Fitz We think of atheists as the people who actively deny the existence of God, but there’s a much more pernicious and widespread atheism among religious...
1. Brambly Hedge Still. It’s an amazing, beautiful little world and she loves inhabiting it. And I don’t mind at all. 2. The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell, illustrated by Maurice Sendak This book is a gem. The story of a bat who falls in...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES by Melanie Bettinelli “In accordance with the scriptures” This is one of those phrases that I find it very easy to pass over without remarking as I’m saying the...
1. 100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON A really fun video. It’s neat how the not only the clothes but also the music and dance moves change. (via Lissla Lissar) 2. Classical statues in hipster clothes. When I saw the title, I rolled my eyes...
The Higgins Armory Museum My sister-in-law belongs to a great Catholic homeshooling group which is very active on the North Shore. Unfortunately most of the events are just too far away for us to attend. I pay my yearly dues because they...
Continuing my read along of Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus with CatholicMom.com’s summer book club In her extensive research, Sherry Weddell learned that most Catholics consider their relationship with...
A collection of pieces I wish I had more time to write about. 1. Bearing writes about Using Persons as Rhetorical Means to an End So how do we push back against dehumanizing political speech? The first step is, as always, attention to the beam in...
1. Another castle: Ozark Medieval Fortress being built by the same guy building the castle in Burgundy. Unfortunately it seems they’ve run out of funding and aren’t open this year. 2. This: I had a mysterious debilitating undiagnosable...
In her book, Forming Intentional Disciples Sherry Weddell tells the story of two men, Gareth and Thomas: Gareth was a lifelong, militant, scientific atheist who had always heaped scorn on Thomas’s deep Catholic faith. But six months earlier...
“Then they came to the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Baptist was bemused. “Why do y’all have a statue of Jesus with his heart on the outside?” “Well,” said the Catholic lady sweetly, “You Baptists like to ask Jesus into your heart...
